Slave prices in late antiquity (and in the very long term)

Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 206-238

  Harper, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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