The politics of wartime demolition and human landscape transformation

War in History

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 431-445

  Golan, Arnon ^a  

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EID: 11144283877     PISSN: 09683445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096834450200900403     Document Type: Article

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