Stature and Living Standards in the United States

Richard H. Steckel
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Copyright 1992
ISBN 0-226-27945-6
American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War
Book: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War
Book editors: Robert E. Gallman & John Joseph Wallis
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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