At home and in the workplace: A historical introduction to the "spatial turn"

History and Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 305-318

  Kümin, Beat ^b   Usborne, Cornelie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Gender studies; Germany; Historiography; Space; Spatial turn

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886706151     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: 14682303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hith.10671     Document Type: Review

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