Agnotology and exotic abortifacients: the cultural production of ignorance in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
دوره 149 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005