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To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel

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  • Wegge, Simone A., 1999. "To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 30-55, January.
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