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Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2015

DAVID ROTH SINGERMAN*
Affiliation:
David Roth Singerman is a research associate at Harvard Business School. In 2014–15 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. E-mail: david.singerman@gmail.com.

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Copyright © The Author 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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