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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Navickas, Katrina (2015). Protest and the politics of space and place 1789–1848. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-7190-9705-8. OCLC 944444550.