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Residents of Late Nineteenth-Century Port Districts: A Comparative Dataset from Antwerp and Boston, 1880–1900 Cover

Residents of Late Nineteenth-Century Port Districts: A Comparative Dataset from Antwerp and Boston, 1880–1900

By: Kristof Loockx  
Open Access
|Jun 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.335 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: May 7, 2025
Accepted on: May 28, 2025
Published on: Jun 20, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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