BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
NO. 496
Economics and Political Science Series Vol. 7, No. 2, PP. 103-234
By
THERESA SCHMID McMAHON, Ph. D.
Sometime Fellow in Sociology
The University of Wisconsin
Instructor in Political and Social Science, University of Washington
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1912
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