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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

Better “Death in Its Most Awful Shapes” than Life in Nova Scotia: Climate Change and the Nova Scotia Maroons, 1796-1800

Submitted
July 13, 2021
Published
2021-07-14

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