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Equally, Scheltjens stresses that the Baltic Sea is just one of the sea routes connecting this region to the West, since the Black Sea became (again) an alternative shipping route from the eighteenth century onwards. Scheltjens, Werner North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660-1860: The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea. A contributor to the project, Scheltjens has drawn on this data in this new book and in his previous work, including his first book on Dutch shipping, which was published in 2015. [Extracted from the article] |
