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Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

Bench Ansfield
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Racial CapitalismUS 20thpropertyinsurance

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Krooss Prize Dissertation Summaries
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 923 - 927
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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