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Research Article

The sausage that awakened a nation: the Carniolan sausage in the Slovenian national imagination, 1849–1918

Jernej MlekužSlovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana, SloveniaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 503-522 | Received 04 Feb 2020, Accepted 28 Sep 2020, Published online: 02 Nov 2020

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