Peasants and entrepreneurship in the nineteenth-century agricultural transformation of Sweden

Social Science History

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-429

  Svensson, Patrick ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 33748803310     PISSN: 01455532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01455532-2006-003     Document Type: Article

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