Accounting’s uses in exploitative human engineering: Theorizing citizenship, indirect rule and Britain’s imperial expansion

Accounting Historians Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 55-80

  Davie, Shanta S K ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85009431617     PISSN: 01484184     EISSN: 23274468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/0148-4184.32.2.55     Document Type: Article

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