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Heikki Pihlajamäki. Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia, ca. 1630-1710: A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe. Northern World Series. Leiden: Brill Academic Publisers, 2017. 308 pp. $146.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-33152-5.
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