Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 72-98

  Wendorf, Richard ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511483974.003     Document Type: Chapter

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