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Bouchard, Jack B., and Amanda E. Herbert. "One British Thing: A Manuscript Recipe Book, ca. 1690–1730." Journal of British Studies 59, no. 2 (April 2020): 396–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.283.

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AbstractA single eighteenth-century British manuscript recipe book, bound in parchment decorated with gold tooling, can tell us an enormous amount about Britain's gastronomic and imperial ambitions. That is because this book, now known by its call number, V.a.680, and held by the Folger Shakespeare Library, contains recipes like “Indian Pickle,” which included ginger, garlic, cauliflower, mustard, turmeric, and long pepper. How did this distinctly South Asian recipe find its way into a London recipe book? In this essay, we explore how British households engaged with and circulated new ideas about food during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We analyze two remarkable recipes, one for mutton kebabs and another for sago pudding, both brought to Britain through emerging imperial projects. Although one recipe originated in the eastern Mediterranean and the other in Southeast Asia, both were changed and altered to suit British metropolitan tastes. We then examine the book itself as a material object created and altered over time, offering evidence of the ways that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscripts were amended, torn apart, repaired, organized, and ultimately professionalized over multiple generations. As physical testaments to the social alliances and networks of knowledge of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons, manuscript recipe books were tools of empire, used to appropriate, translate, and transmit the global foodways that permeated Britain's earliest colonial schemes.
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Orr, Leah. "Selling Books in Eighteenth-Century Boston: The Daybook of Benjamin Guild." New England Quarterly 95, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 681–711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00964.

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Abstract Through an analysis of the daybook of late-eighteenth-century Boston bookseller Benjamin Guild, this essay presents a microhistory of retail bookselling in Boston just after the Revolutionary War. It argues that American customers mainly bought British books and that prices varied, with implications for book history, literature, and cultural studies.
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RODGER, N. A. M. "RECENT WORK IN BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY, 1750–1815." Historical Journal 51, no. 3 (September 2008): 741–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x08006997.

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Cloonan, Martin. "‘I fought the law’: popular music and British obscenity law." Popular Music 14, no. 3 (October 1995): 349–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000007789.

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In Britain the term ‘obscenity’ has enjoyed a chequered career. Obscene libel first became an offence in 1727 when an erotic book called Venus in the Cloister was found to contravene common law by tending to ‘weaken the bonds of civil society, virtue and morality’ (Robertson 1991, p. 180). Despite this, erotic literature remained freely available throughout the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century Britain got its first Obscene Publications Act. This came in 1857 and gave the police power to take books before local Justices who could order their forfeiture and destruction.
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SIMPSON, MARCUS B., and SALLIE W. SIMPSON. "John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina: notes on the publication history of the London (1709) edition." Archives of Natural History 35, no. 2 (October 2008): 223–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0260954108000363.

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John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina, an important source document for American colonial natural history, was first printed in 1709 in A new collection of voyages and travels, a two-volume set that also contained travel books translated by John Stevens. Lawson's publishers were leaders in the book trade of early eighteenth century London, and the New voyage is typical of the resurgent popular interest in foreign travel narratives and exotic flora and fauna that began in the late 1600s. The New collection was among the earliest examples of books published in serial instalments or fascicles, a marketing strategy adopted by London booksellers to broaden the audience and increase sales. Analysis of London issues of the New voyage indicates that the 1709, 1711, 1714, and 1718 versions are simply bindings of the original, unsold sheets from the 1709 New collection edition, differing only by new title-pages, front matter, and random stop-press corrections of type-set errors. Lawson's New voyage illustrates important aspects of the British book trade during the hand press period of the early eighteenth century.
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Pandey, Uma Shanker. "French Academic Forays in the Eighteenth-Century North India." Indian Historical Review 46, no. 2 (December 2019): 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0376983619889515.

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French adventurers’ academic forays in the 18th century in India has so far received little scholarly attention. Except some stray remarks and mentioning, it has not been taken up systematically. The present article is an exercise to show that some of the French military adventurers had been touched and impressed by Indian culture and civilization. They, therefore, carried out passionate explorations of Indian books and manuscripts, not only to understand India better but also to acquaint the Occident more. in the process, some them emerged as great collectors. they were pioneers also, in the sense that they were forerunners to the British Indologists who appeared on Indian academic horizon in the last quarter of the 18th century. Anquetil Duperron, Polier, and Gentil were among the the great collectors of books and manuscripts during the time.
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Marshall, P. J. "Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 8 (December 1998): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3679286.

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By the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her European rivals could match. Not only did she rule a great empire, but the reach of expeditionary forces from either Britain itself or from British India stretched from the River Plate to the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. Britain's overseas trade had developed a strongly global orientation: she was die leading distributor of tropical produce diroughout die world and in the last years of the century about four-fifths of her exports were going outside Europe. Britain was at die centre of inter-continental movements of people, not only exporting her own population but shipping almost as many Africans across the Atantic during die eighteenth century as all the other carriers put together. It is not surprising therefore that British historians have searched for the qualities that marked out eighteeth-century Britain's exceptionalism on a world stage. Notable books have stressed, not only the dynamism of die British economy, but developments such as the rise of Britain's ‘fiscal-military state’ or die forging of a sense of British national identity behind war and empire overseas.
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Moore, P. G. "Popularizing marine natural history in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain." Archives of Natural History 41, no. 1 (April 2014): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2014.0209.

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The literary and pedagogic style of books popularizing marine natural history for the British public shifted during the nineteenth century. Previously, natural history books had been written largely by men, with notable exceptions like Isabella Gifford, Mary Gatty and Mary Roberts. Gentlemen naturalists tended to be clerics or medics; educated men conventionally viewing their interest as revelatory of the Divine in nature. Typically, women were less well educated than men but some from clerical backgrounds, having better access to learning, became significant popularizers of natural history. Gosse's works promoting aquaria and “rock-pooling” (typically among the middle classes), helped to develop a ready market for the plethora of popular seashore books appearing in the 1850s; with coastal access being facilitated by expansion of the railways. Controversies concerning evolution rarely penetrated works aimed at a popular readership. However, the style adopted by marine natural history writers had changed noticeably by the end of the nineteenth century. The earlier conversational dialogue or narrative forms gave way to a more terse scientific style, omitting references to the Divine. Evolutionary ideas were affecting populist texts on littoral natural history, even if only covertly.
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Deacon, Philip, and H. G. Whitehead. "Short-Title Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Books in the British Library." Modern Language Review 92, no. 3 (July 1997): 769. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3733471.

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Datla, Kavita Saraswathi. "The Origins of Indirect Rule in India: Hyderabad and the British Imperial Order." Law and History Review 33, no. 2 (April 1, 2015): 321–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248015000115.

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The main problem with the orthodox account of modern world politics is that it describes only one of these patterns of international order: the one that was dedicated to the pursuit of peaceful coexistence between equal and mutually independent sovereigns, which developed within the Westphalian system and the European society of states....Orthodox theorists have paid far too little attention to the other pattern of international order, which evolved during roughly the same period of time, but beyond rather than within Europe; not through relations between Europeans, but through relations between Europeans and non-Europeans. Instead of being based on a states-system, this pattern of order was based on colonial and imperial systems, and its characteristic practice was not the reciprocal recognition of sovereign independence between states, but rather the division of sovereignty across territorial borders and the enforcement of individuals' rights to their persons and property. The American Revolution and the “revolution” in Bengal posed new political questions for domestic British politics and inaugurated a new era for the British empire. As the British committed themselves to the administration of a vast population of non-Europeans in the Indian province of Bengal, and estimations of financial windfalls were presented to stockholders and politicians, the center of the British Empire came slowly to shift toward the East. The evolution of a system of indirect rule in India as it related to larger political questions being posed in Britain, partly because of its protracted and diverse nature, has not received the same attention. Attention to Indian states, in the scholarship on eighteenth century South Asia, has closely followed the expanding colonial frontier, focusing on those states that most engaged British military attention: Bengal, Mysore, and the Marathas. And yet, the eighteenth century should also command our attention as a crucial moment of transition from an earlier Indian Ocean world trading system, in which European powers inserted themselves as one sovereign authority among many, to that of being supreme political authorities of territories that they did not govern directly. India's native states, or “country powers,” as the British referred to them in the eighteenth century, underwrote the expansion of the East India Company in the East. The tribute paid by these states became an important financial resource at the company's disposal, as it attempted to balance its books in the late eighteenth century. Additionally, the troops maintained to protect these states were significant in Britain's late eighteenth century military calculations. These states, in other words, were absolutely central to the forging of the British imperial order, and generative of the very practices that came to characterize colonial expansion and governance.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Eighteenth-century British books"

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Robbie, Enid Catherine. "A British view of some French institutions in the mid-eighteenth-century, from the papers and books of Sir William Mildmay." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ27803.pdf.

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Squibbs, Richard J. "Conversing with books reading the eighteenth-century British periodical essay in Jeffersonian America." 2007. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.16781.

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Books on the topic "Eighteenth-century British books"

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G, Whitehead H., ed. Short-title catalogue of eighteenth-century Spanish books in the British Library. London: The British Library, 1994.

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British Library. Short-title catalogue of eighteenth-century Spanish books in the British Library. London: The British Library, 1994.

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Winearls, Joan. Art on the wing: British, American, and Canadian illustrated bird books from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1999.

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Beit-Arié, Malachi. Perek shirah: An eighteenth-century illuminated Hebrew book of praise : companion volume to the facsimile edition. London: Facsimile Editions Limited, 1996.

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Fuderer, Laura Sue. Eighteenth-century British women in print: Catalog of an exhibit. [Notre Dame, Ind.]: University of Notre Dame, 1995.

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Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine, and Marcus Hartner, eds. Comparative Practices. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839457993.

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Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses, and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.
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Barlow, Derek. On the transition from book labels to book plates amongst the circulating libraries & the booksellers in later eighteenth-century Newcastle-on-Tyne. Oldham [England]: Incline Press, 2002.

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Peter, Sabor, ed. 'Pamela' in the marketplace: Literary controversy and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Fuderer, Laura Sue. Eighteenth-century British women in print: Catalog of an exhibit : February 15 to March 31, 1995, and June 12 to August 15, 1995, in the Department of Special Collections of the University Libraries of Notre Dame. [Notre Dame, Ind: Libraries], 1995.

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Lehmann, Reinhard G. British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion, 1993.

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Grundy, Isobel. "Chawton House: Gathering Old Books for a New Library." In British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century, 171–85. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230595972_12.

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Montoya, Alicia C. "Women’s Libraries and “Women’s Books”, 1729–1830." In Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 289–314. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46939-8_12.

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AbstractDuring the eighteenth century, as the practice of selling books at auction spread throughout Europe, moving beyond its original Dutch origins to the rest of the continent, an increasing number of female-owned libraries were also sold at auction. These sales were accompanied by printed catalogues that, together with widespread discourses about women’s reading, helped construct new images of the female reader. During the same period, a new ideal type of female-gendered library was conceptualized, the bibliothèque choisie, that foregrounded personal reading taste and belles-lettres, and was sometimes associated with historical, real female readers. This essay explores the historical reality of the discursively imagined woman reader, using bibliometric tools to examine a corpus of auction catalogues of smaller and medium-sized female-owned libraries or bibliothèques choisies sold in France, the Dutch Republic and British Isles between 1729 and 1830. Adopting a geographically comparative perspective, I study the historical evolution of these female-owned libraries, focusing particularly on women as readers of devotional literature and of novels. I demonstrate that while women’s libraries did differ perceptibly from men’s libraries, these differences were sometimes subtler than inherited narratives might suggest, and require rich contextualization taking into account multiple geographic, social, and material factors.
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Dahl, Gina. "Books from the British Isles in the Collections of the Eighteenth-Century Norwegian Clergy." In Northern European Reformations, 319–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54458-4_13.

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O’Sullivan, Emer. "Chapter 10. Make it Irish!" In Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 226–49. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/clcc.15.10osu.

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Before the British Copyright Act of 1710 was extended to Ireland in 1801, its book market was dominated by British works, reprinted by Irish booksellers. Rather than being mere copies of the original, many of these were hibernicized, or made Irish. This chapter addresses the transnational phenomenon of culturally translated books issued in Ireland in the eighteenth century. It focusses on the Dublin bookseller James Hoey Junior, especially on his hibernicized version of John Newbery’s 1750 encyclopedia for children, A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and reviews the sociopolitical context in which it was created. The chapter probes the blend of commercial and patriotic interests behind Hoey’s hibernicization, and aims to ascertain the degree to which his own cultural and religious affiliations are evident in his version for young Irish readers.
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Haschemi Yekani, Elahe. "Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere." In Familial Feeling, 1–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6_1.

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AbstractIn the introduction to Familial Feeling, Haschemi Yekani proposes a transatlantic reframing of Ian Watt’s famous work on the rise of the novel. Offering a critical overview of the intertwined histories of enslavement and modernity, this chapter proposes a focus on transatlantic entanglement already in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to challenge the more prevalent retrospective paradigm of “writing back” in postcolonial studies. Introducing the concepts of familial feeling and entangled tonalities, Haschemi Yekani describes the affective dimension of literature that shapes notions of national belonging. This is then discussed in the book in relation to the four entangled aesthetic tonalities of familial feeling in early Black Atlantic writing and canonical British novels by Daniel Defoe, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Robert Wedderburn, Charles Dickens, and Mary Seacole. To provide context for the following literary readings, scholarship on sentimentalism and the abolition of slavery is introduced and significantly extended, especially in relation to the shifts from moral sentiment and the abolition of the slave trade in the eighteenth century to social reform and the rise of the new imperialism and colonial expansion in the nineteenth century.
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Bowen, H. V. "Empire To 1783." In Annual Bibliography Of British And Irish History, 313–22. Oxford University PressOxford, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249176.003.0014.

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Abstract Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis (Jr.) (eds.) Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999), xxxvii, 2095p.Armitage, David. ‘The British conception of Empire in the eighteenth century’, A6, 91–107.Bailyn, Bernard. ‘The first British empire: from Cambridge to Oxford. An essay-review of The Oxford History of the British Empire, volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, and volume II: The Eighteenth Century’, William and Mary Quarterly 57:3 (2000), 647–59.Bowen, H.V. ‘400 years of the East India Company’, History Today 50:7 (2000), 47–53.
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Howard-Hill, T. H. "Forms, Genres, And Subjects." In British Literary Bibliography, 1970–1979, 253–354. Oxford University PressOxford, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198181835.003.0006.

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Abstract 2282 Pickering, Sam, ‘Cozen’d into a knowledge of the letters’; eighteenth-century alphabetical game books. Res Stud Washington State Univ 46no4:223–36 D ‘78. 2283 Jones, Janet Pryce- and R.H. Parker. Accounting in Scotland; a historical bibliography. Edinburgh, Institute of chartered accountants of Scotland, Scottish committee on accounting history, 1974. (2d ed. 1976). x,96p. facsims., ports. 30cm.
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Stock, Paul. "Geographical Texts." In Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830, 17–37. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807117.003.0001.

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Chapter 1 explains the characteristics and significance of the book’s principal source material: late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British geography books. These works have been largely neglected by historians, but their popularity and summative nature means that they can reveal the formative, commonplace ideas circulating in British literate culture. However, due to their opaque authorships, plagiaristic contents, and complex publication histories, geographical texts pose specific methodological challenges. The chapter therefore argues that we need to adopt different conceptual and procedural priorities in order to discern popular mentalities from these works.
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Stock, Paul. "The State." In Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830, 124–52. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807117.003.0006.

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Chapter 6 discusses late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century geography books’ sustained focus on the political states of Europe. The books present states both as organic communities with multi-faceted jurisdictions, and as increasingly centralized governmental authorities. They usually specify that monarchy is the definitive form of European government, and that European states share a propensity for ‘liberty’, broadly defined as respect for law and property, and the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe. Some geographical texts talk about ‘nations’, but ideas about European polities remain reliant on established notions of governmental structures.
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Stock, Paul. "Human Difference." In Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830, 103–23. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807117.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 explains how debates about human origins and distinctiveness inform ideas about Europe. Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century geography books often argue that the natural environment shapes human characteristics, and that Europeans are distinctive because they have been exposed to certain conditions. However, the books also propose that Europeans possess intrinsic, unchanging qualities. This tension highlights the complexities of contemporary racial thought, which combines ideas about inherent nature, inheritance, environmental influence, and aesthetics. Some geographical texts argue for a single European race, but others identify a range of European races, often premised on categorization of languages.
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