In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation

@article{Zimmer1998InSO,
  title={In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation},
  author={Oliver Zimmer},
  journal={Comparative Studies in Society and History},
  year={1998},
  volume={40},
  pages={637 - 665},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:146259022}
}
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