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Book Title: Owning Memory: How A Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives A...
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Jeannette A. Bastian
Publication Name: Owning Memory : How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2003
Series: Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 120 Pages
