"Bringing it all back home": The issues involved in teaching a U.S. regional politics course

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-82

  Melcher, James P ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/S1049096500048897     Document Type: Article

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