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Karl Marx

Greatness and Illusion

Gareth Stedman Jones

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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674971615

Publication Date: 10/03/2016

768 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

30 halftones, 4 maps

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Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.

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