Early Debates about Industry Voltaire and His Contemporaries

Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of hea...

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Main Author: Schui, Florian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2005, 2005
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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