Archiving areas: The Ethnogeographic Board and the Second World War

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 663-679

  Farish, Matthew ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area studies; Intelligence; Second World War; U.S. Ethnogeographic Board

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27844458997     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00480.x     Document Type: Review

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