Searching for Utopia Universities and Their Histories

• Author: Hanna Holborn Gray
• Date: 27 Jan 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Hardback::130 pages
• ISBN10: 0520270657
• ISBN13: 9780520270657
• Publication City/Country: Berkerley, United States
• File name: Searching-for-Utopia-Universities-and-Their-Histories.pdf
• Dimension: 140x 210x 15mm::318g
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