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Add new Web site: NSCC Libraries Pressbooks - Absolutism. Dec 06, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts Library - Absolutism. Sep 21, 2022
Article revised and updated. Oct 29, 2019
Corrected display issue. Dec 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Ohio University - Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions - Absolutism. Feb 04, 2014
Media added. Jan 30, 2009
Article revised and updated. Dec 14, 2006
Article revised and updated. Aug 10, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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