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Charting Lives and Careers: Enriched Data About the Dutch East India Company’s Eighteenth-Century European Workforce

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|Jul 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.210 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 16, 2024
Accepted on: Jun 26, 2024
Published on: Jul 15, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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