The Humanities: Cultural Roots and Continuities: The Humanities and the Modern World
- ISBN-10
- 0669416584
- ISBN-13
- 9780669416589
- Series
- The Humanities
- Category
- Africa
- Pages
- 624
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-10
- Publisher
- D C Heath & Company
- Author
- Mary Ann Frese Witt
Description
He realized the risk : the kind of ruler ruthless enough to establish order was not likely to be the kind of prince willing to train the people in self - government . But in a peninsula divided into fifty to a hundred power centers ...
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