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INEQUALITY AND WELL-BEING IN IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN REGIONS SINCE 1820. NEW APPROACHES FROM ANTHROPOMETRIC HISTORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2019

José M. Martínez-Carrión
Affiliation:
Universidad de Murcia
Ricardo D. Salvatore
Affiliation:
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

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