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From Particles to Politics

January 2014

In book: Teaching and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field (pp.72 - 99)
Chapter: 3
Publisher: Uchitel Publishing House, Volgograd, Russia
Editors: Leonid Grinin, David Baker, Esther Quadackers, and Andrey Korotayev

Authors:

Lowell Gustafson

Villanova University

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