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Creating capitalism: joint-stock enterprise in British politics and culture, 1800-1870 (Paperback edition)

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Creating capitalism: joint-stock enterprise in British politics and culture, 1800-1870 (Paperback edition). / Taylor, James.
Paperback ed. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. 266 p. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series).

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Taylor J. Creating capitalism: joint-stock enterprise in British politics and culture, 1800-1870 (Paperback edition). Paperback ed. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. 266 p. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series).

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Taylor, James. / Creating capitalism : joint-stock enterprise in British politics and culture, 1800-1870 (Paperback edition). Paperback ed. Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2014. 266 p. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series).

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