OWNERSHIP

BY

JOSEPH HARDING UNDERWOOD, A. M.,
Professor of History and Economics, University of Montana

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS

FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

IN THE

FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

PREFATORY NOTE

FOR opportunity and aid the writer is grateful to Professor Isaac A. Loos, of the University of Iowa; to Miss Margaret A. Schaffner, Ph. D., now of the University of Wisconsin, and to Professors Franklin H. Giddings and Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia University. 349]

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