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The Business of Property: Levantine Joint-stock Companies and Nineteenth-Century Global Capitalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2020

KRISTEN ALFF
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Krooss Prize Dissertation Summaries
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 853 - 865
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© The Author 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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