Albion Pub Date : 2005-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/4054662

H. Malchow

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“George II and All That Stuff”: On the Value of the Neglected * “乔治二世和所有那些东西”:论被忽视的价值*

Albion Pub Date : 2005-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/4054583

Jeremy Black

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Albion Pub Date : 2005-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/4054594

L. Attreed

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Gordon Bigelow. Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 229. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82848-1. 戈登·毕格罗。维多利亚时代英国和爱尔兰的小说、饥荒和经济学的兴起。纽约：剑桥大学出版社。2003年，第x页，第229页$65.00是0-521-82848-1。

Albion Pub Date : 2005-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/4054631

Richard C. Maxwell

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Albion Pub Date : 2005-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/4054642

Paul R. Ziegler