Diaspora entrepreneurial networks; four centuries of history.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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185973880X

Diaspora entrepreneurial networks; four centuries of history.

Ed. by Ina Baghdiantz et al.

Berg Publishers

2005

440 pages

$28.95

Paperback

HF479

Historians and sociologists present case studies of organized groups of merchant families and their extended regional network...

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