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Progress Amid Poverty: Economic Opportunity in Antebellum Newburyport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Steven Herscovici
Steven Herscovici
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Economist with Analysis Group Economics, Cambridge, MA
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 484 - 488
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1997

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