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Ford-A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland : A Case Study of Repopulation and Social Change in a Small Community /

The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians of the United States, have long been a problem area in Great Britain, troubled with a fading economy and loss of population. Most books about the region, however, are popular volumes that romanticize a bygone way of life. This study of Ford,...

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Autor principal: Stephenson, John B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Winds of ChangeFootnotes; Appendix; Appendix Table 1; Appendix Table 2; Appendix Table 3; Appendix Table 4; Appendix Table 5; Appendix Table 6. 
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