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Time Use in Eighteenth-Century London: Some Evidence from the Old Bailey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Hans-Joachim Voth
Hans-Joachim Voth
Affiliation:
King's College, Cambridge
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 497 - 499
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1997

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