Dream Home: Remodeling American Expectations with Model Houses

Journal of American Culture

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 332-342

  Wallack, Catherine ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

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EID: 84861318559     PISSN: 15427331     EISSN: 1542734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2009.00721.x     Document Type: Note

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