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The Welfare State for Historians. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Peter Baldwin
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

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Type
Imposing the Rules of Economic Behavior
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1992

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