Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Edited by Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney
Contributions by Edward G. Gray, Christian J. Koot, Alexander Zukas, John Morton, Paul Musselwhite, Kim Gruenwald, Karen Rann, Charles W. A. Prior, Chad McCutchen, Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Sarah Chute and Scott Truett
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829259
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
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