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Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His most recent book is Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013). Currently, he is working on two books, Latin America: A Global History, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, and Earth Hunger.
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