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Tensions of Europe:
Technology in the Making of 20th-Century Europe

Working Bibliography
version 30 August 2000; revised 30 August 2001

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Goodman, David, ed. (1999). The European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-industrial City. London/New York: Routledge and Open University.

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