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Sovereignty, Exploration, and Anglo-Danish Relations

Denmark’s Territorial Interests in Greenland and the North Atlantic during the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Mary Elizabeth Ailes
Scandinavian Studies, July 2024, 96 (3) 21-38; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.96.3.21
Mary Elizabeth Ailes
Mary Elizabeth Ailes is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She has published two books: Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden (University of Nebraska Press, 2002) and Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War (University of Nebraska Press, 2018).
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