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Best sociology books both textbooks and more specialized academic studies. If an article is available through another source pdf, doc, or html will be noted next to the article always evaluate the source and content of any article before including it in your research paper. Editor and contributor, with john holmwood, houndmills, palgrave, 2014. You are allowed to get book from a seflin member library, or request books through interlibrary loan. Students of history will be reading, and likely debating, it for years.
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