'A proportionable mixture': William Petty, political arithmetic, and the transmutation of the Irish

Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 123-139

  McCormick, Ted ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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