Sites in the imagination: The Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial on the Somme

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-258

  Gough, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; PROTECTED AREA; WAR;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 3242796491     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1474474003eu306oa     Document Type: Article

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