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Global Intellectual History Volume 9, 2024 - Issue 1-2: Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World. Edited by Christian Olaf Christiansen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Mélanie Lindbjerg Guichon (Aarhus University, Denmark), Sofía Mercader (Aarhus University, Denmark)
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Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World

The Janus-face of interdependence: A transnational intellectual history of global inequality in the US and Ghana, c. 1975–1985

Christian Olaf ChristiansenDepartment of Philosophy and History of Ideas, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 218-246 | Published online: 10 Jun 2022

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