Crossing Class Boundaries: Tramp Ethnographers and Narratives of Class in Progressive Era America

Social Science History

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 559-592

  Higbie, Toby ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/S0145553200017843     Document Type: Article

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