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The Role of Government Policy in Increasing Drug Use: Java, 1875–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Siddharth Chandra
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, 3R25 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. E-mail: chandra@birch.gspia.pitt.edu.

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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2002

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