Infectious rats and dangerous cows: Transnational perspectives on animal diseases in the first half of the twentieth century

Contemporary European History

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-306

  Knab, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 80053310093     PISSN: 09607773     EISSN: 14692171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0960777311000324     Document Type: Review

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