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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698

Freeman, JohnUniversity of Cambridge2021

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 century, the ambitions of the dukes, in particular Duke Jakob Kettler …

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