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Makers of Fortune : a Colonial Business Community and Its Fall.

So many businesses rose and fell in nineteenth-century Auckland that the city was called a 'graveyard of enterprise'. By far the most serious and general collapse came during the decade of depression and banking crises which overtook the whole colony after 1885. Auckland's commercial...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stone, R. C. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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