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HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, Vol 17 No 1 (2025), 155–161
Wolfgang Schwentker: Geschichte Japans
Jóhann Páll Árnason
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2025.10
published online: 23. 07. 2025
abstract
Book Review on Wolfgang Schwentker: Geschichte Japans. München: C. H. Beck 2022, 1050 p., ISBN 978-3-406-75159-2
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