To market! To market! The changing role of the Australian timber merchant, 1945-c.1965

Australian Economic History Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-50

  Harris, Richard ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0005468850     PISSN: 00048992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8446.00054     Document Type: Article

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