Frontier engineering: From the globe to the body in the Cold War Arctic

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-196

  Farish, Matthew ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; GEOPOLITICS; LANDSCAPE; SOCIAL HISTORY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33744792087     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2006.00134.x     Document Type: Article

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