'Following the hills': Gold mining camps as heterotopias

Studies in Global Social History

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 111-132

  Werthmann, Katja ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84903130281     PISSN: 18746705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004181168.i-452.31     Document Type: Article

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