Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? : the Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic,14660-1825

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 105-120

  Gould, Eliga H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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