ONE EARTH, FOUR OR FIVE WORLDS: REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
by Paz, Octavio
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0151693943
- ISBN 13
- 9780151693948
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About This Item
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Near fine (very slight wear) in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, light edgewear at spine, two short closed tears). Translated by Helen R. Lane. A collection of articles, revised somewhat to reflect events of the mid-1980s. 213 pages. . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.
Synopsis
Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. "Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite" (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane.
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- Bookseller
- Barbara Bilson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002467
- Title
- ONE EARTH, FOUR OR FIVE WORLDS: REFLECTIONS ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Author
- Paz, Octavio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151693943
- ISBN 13
- 9780151693948
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- San Diego
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Essays, history, imperialism, democracy, latin america
- Bookseller catalogs
- ESSAYS; HISTORY / Americas;
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