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Research Articles

‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA

Pages 665-681 | Received 11 Oct 2021, Accepted 10 Oct 2022, Published online: 20 Jan 2023

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