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Dietary Change in Antebellum America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Robert E. Gallman
Robert E. Gallman
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The author is Kenan Professor of Economics and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3305.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 193 - 201
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1996

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