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Today: Merchant marine milk cows keep the corrupting Chinese commerce coming! As well, as a colonies on the North American mainland and in the Caribbean, Sweden established a foothold in China at Canton in the eighteenth century. The Swedish East India Company, founded in 1732 to capture the eastern end of trade, was highly successful […]
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Those Unhealthy Swedes… wait, what? Sweden is today one of the healthiest countries in which to live and has some the world’s highest rates of human longevity. However, this was not always so. In the early modern period, it was frequently afflicted by the bubonic plague, with extraordinarily high mortality rates. Smallpox, until the late […]
Read MoreThis week — Sweden: the Colonial Power Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard brings us tidbits and snippets about a country that many Americans, myself included, sadly know little about. Here in New York, we have Dutch and English street names, and a flag adapted from the Netherlands’. I grew up in Pennsylvania, surrounded by the […]
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