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Land Ownership, Farm Size, and Tenancy after the Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Mary Eschelbach Hansen
Mary Eschelbach Hansen
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(formerly Mary Eschelbach Gregson) is Assistant Professor of Economics, Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 61401
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 822 - 829
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1998

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