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- I am grateful to Anthony Hopwood, Pat Hudson, Roger Morriss, Michael Power and Simon Schaffer for their helpful comments.
‘System of terror’: Samuel Bentham, accountability and dockyard reform during the Napoleonic WarsFootnote∗I am grateful to Anthony Hopwood, Pat Hudson, Roger Morriss, Michael Power and Simon Schaffer for their helpful comments.
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