Material progress and the challenge of affluence in seventeenth-century England

Economic History Review

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 576-603

  Slack, Paul ^a  

^a LINACRE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LIVING STANDARD; MATERIAL CULTURE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67651065451     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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