Cleanliness and squalor in inter-war Tel-Aviv

Urban History

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-99

  Helman, Anat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IDEOLOGY; SANITATION; SERVICE PROVISION; URBAN HISTORY; WAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; TEL AVIV;

EID: 5544303678     PISSN: 09639268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S096392680401798     Document Type: Article

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