West Africa and the Congo
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in the NBER 2008 Summer Institute Workshop on Macroeconomics and Income Distribution for generously taking the time to read this (long!) manuscript and give me detailed comments. I am also grateful for research assistance to history's best RA, Tobias Pfutze. All errors are of course my responsibility.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Geographical Journal
سال: 1913
ISSN: 0016-7398
DOI: 10.2307/1778092