Land abundance and cheap horsepower in the mechanization of the antebellum United States economy
- 30 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Explorations in Economic History
- Vol. 18 (4) , 309-329
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4983(81)90001-2
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