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This end chapter reviews the contributions to the volume. The historical archaeology of Danish and Swedish colonialism is examined in relation to wider debates about the archaeology of colonialism and recent trends in postcolonial studies.
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Symonds, J. (2013). Colonial Encounters of the Nordic Kind. In: Naum, M., Nordin, J. (eds) Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6202-6_18
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