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“Icelandic Putridity”: Colonial Thought and Icelandic Architectural Heritage

Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
Scandinavian Studies, March 2019, 91 (1-2) 53-73; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.91.1-2.0053
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
University of Iceland
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