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The Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 Expansion Without Empire*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Pieter C. Emmer  and
Wim Klooster
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Round Table Conference: The Nature of Atlantic History
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Itinerario , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , July 1999 , pp. 48 - 69
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1999

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