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Strategic Ideas in the Rise of the New Anthropometric History and their Implications for Interdisciplinary Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Richard H. Steckel
Richard H. Steckel
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Professor, Economics and Anthropology Departments, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 803 - 821
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