Rent from the land: A political ecology of postsocialist rural transformation

Rent from the Land: A Political Ecology of Postsocialist Rural Transformation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-137

  Stahl, Johannes ^a  

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DOI: 10.7135/UPO9781843318989     Document Type: Book

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