Contract enforcement in the English East India Company

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 496-523

  Hejeebu, Santhi ^a  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; TRADE FLOW;

EID: 33644596968     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050705000173     Document Type: Article

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