Childhood, colonialism, and nation-building: Child labor in Virginia and New York

Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 159-182

  Barrett, Autumn ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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