British Business History: A Review of the Periodical Literature for 1991

Business History

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 1-16

  Chick, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 6044235743     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076799300000001     Document Type: Article

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71. F. Bostock, ‘The British Overseas Banks and Development Finance in Africa after 1945’, Business History, Vol. 33 No. 3 (July 1991), pp. 157-176
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