"Introduction: Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales."

Martyn Richard Bone

"Introduction: Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales."

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

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Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Creating and Consuming the American South
Redaktører	Martyn Bone, Brian Ward, William Link
Antal sider	25
Udgivelsessted	Gainesville
Forlag	University Press of Florida
Publikationsdato	1 jan. 2015
Sider	1-25
Kapitel	Introduction
ISBN (Trykt)	978-0-8130-6069-9
Status	Udgivet - 1 jan. 2015

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