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Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Shane Hamilton
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 666 - 674
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2006. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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