A Nation of Realtors®: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class 9780822386605

A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century Ameri

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A Nation of Realtors®: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
9780822386605

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb01367.0001.001

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