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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America.(Book review)
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Early American Literature
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January 1, 2008
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- Iannini, Christopher
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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America
JAMES DELBOURGO
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006
367 pp.
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