Fabricating the market: The promotion of life assurance in the long nineteenth-century

Journal of Historical Sociology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-54

  McFall, Liz ^a   Dodsworth, Francis ^a  

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EID: 61849148926     PISSN: 09521909     EISSN: 14676443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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