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Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2015

DAVID ROTH SINGERMAN
DAVID ROTH SINGERMAN*
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David Roth Singerman is a research associate at Harvard Business School. In 2014–15 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. E-mail: david.singerman@gmail.com.
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 780 - 791
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Copyright © The Author 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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