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Ruin Lust, Fantastic Futures: From the Eighteenth Century to Contemporary Speculative Archaeologies

By: Giulia Iannuzzi  
Open Access
|May 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjeas/2025/31/1/11 | Journal eISSN: 2732-0421 | Journal ISSN: 1218-7364
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