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Parasites, Persons, and Princes: Evolutionary Biology of the Corporate Constitution

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Philip J. Stern
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Itinerario , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , December 2015 , pp. 512 - 525
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© 2016 Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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Philip Stern is Sally Dalton Robinson Associate Professor at Duke University and a specialist in the history of Britain and the British Empire particularly in the early modern period.

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