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Violence and Profits on the Restoration Stage: Trade, Nationalism, and Insecurity in Dryden's Amboyna

@article{Markley1998ViolenceAP,
  title={Violence and Profits on the Restoration Stage: Trade, Nationalism, and Insecurity in Dryden's Amboyna},
  author={Robert Markley},
  journal={Eighteenth-Century Life},
  year={1998},
  volume={22},
  pages={17 - 2}
}
  • R. Markley
  • Published 1 February 1998
  • Economics
  • Eighteenth-Century Life
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