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Chapter 36 - The Jews in the Early Modern Caribbean and the Atlantic World

from Part III - The Jewish World, c. 1650–1815

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Jonathan Karp
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Binghamton
Adam Sutcliffe
Affiliation:
King's College London
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