Cross-National Collective Action in Palestine’s Mixed Towns: The 1946 Civil Servants Strike1

Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 85-112

  De Vries, David ^a  

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