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Crisis? What Crisis?: Rethinking How We Talk about Rural America

By: Steven Conn  
Open Access
|Oct 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2024-0004 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487
Language: English
Page range: 52 - 72
Published on: Oct 10, 2024
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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