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EditorialAmerican geography , social science and the Cold War American geography , social science and the Cold War Trevor
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science as Culture
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0950-5431,1470-1189
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.768225