Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Accounting and bookkeeping - Contract labor and the indenture system -- v. 2. Cooperative agriculture and farmer cooperatives - Hughes, Jonathan -- v. 3. Human capital - Mongolia -- v. 4. Monte di Piet - Spain -- v. 5. Spices and spice trade - Zoos and other animal parks.

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