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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):218-219; doi:10.1093/es/khn009
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B. Anne Wood. Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2006. xxix + 197 pp. ISBN 0-88920-500-0, $65.00 (cloth)
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Evangelical Balance Sheet is about the choices made by Norman Rudolf, a middle-class Nova Scotian who was born in Lunenburg in 1835, lived in Pictou between 1853 and 1870, when he crossed the Atlantic to reside first in Glasgow and then in Liverpool. Apart from his migration from the new world to the old, what distinguishes Rudolf from most of his contemporaries is the survival of five volumes of diary that he kept between 1862 and the month before his
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