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Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Max-Stephan Schulze
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Lecturer in Economic History, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

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Review Article
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1997

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