A business education for 'the middling sort of people' in mercantilist Britain

British Accounting Review

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 240-255

  Edwards, John Richard ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting history; Business education; Writing master

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749112381     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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