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Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815.
Daniel Hickey,Philip T. Hoffman +1 more
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1997-02-01. It has received 139 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Traditional society.read more
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Institutions and the path to the modern economy
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