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- ↑ "Janet Polasky (faculty page)". unh.edu. University of New Hampshire. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Adams, Jad (21 April 2015). "Revolutions without Borders - the Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World, by Janet Polasky: Age of enlightenment recalled in a thrilling history lesson". The Independent . Retrieved 30 September 2015.
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- ↑ Addison, Bland (Spring 1992). "Reviewed Work: Revolution in Brussels, 1787-1793". Eighteenth-Century Studies . 25 (3): 422. doi:10.2307/2739358. JSTOR 2739358.
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