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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a vassal to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and constrained at the eastern edge of the Baltic Sea, was an unlikely candidate for colonial expansion. Yet, in the mid- to late seventeenth ... -
Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
This thesis presents migrants from the German lands as integral to Dutch imperial ventures of the early modern era, and questions to what extent the European dimension of Dutch colonialism was Dutch in composition and ... -
Sir John Marsham (1602-1685) and the History of Scholarship
This is the first major study of the English historian, antiquarian and lawyer Sir John Marsham (1602-85) and his intellectual world. It is principally concerned with the origins, development, and impact of his last, largest, ... -
Histories of the British people, in their own words, 1945-85
This study explores the autobiographies of ordinary Britons, written in the middle and later decades of the twentieth century. It draws on a little fewer than 300 of these under-studied documents, reading them for their ...
