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Who killed Meyer Hasenfus? Organized crime, policing and informing on the Witwatersrand, 1902-8

C van Onselen. 2009. Who killed Meyer Hasenfus? Organized crime, policing and informing on the Witwatersrand, 1902-8. History Workshop Journ...

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Finding and Growing Athlone

Baderoon, Gabeba. 2017. Finding and Growing Athlone. New England Review, 38(4), 37–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2017.0098

Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon

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Cities of Power. The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global

Therborn, Göran. 2017. Cities of Power. The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. London & New York: Verso. https://www.versobooks.c...

Göran Therborn Göran Therborn

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The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780

Ågren, Maria. 2017. The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780. Manchester: Manchester Un...

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