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Three Mercantilistic Proto-Factories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Herman Freudenberger
Herman Freudenberger
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Associate Professor of Economics, Tulane University
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Abstract

The role of “proto-factories” in the industrial development of eighteenth-century Europe is explored through comparison of three Bohemian examples.

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Business History Review , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Summer 1966 , pp. 167 - 189
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1966

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