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Andrekos Varnava
Imperial expectations and realities [EPUB ebook]
El Dorados, utopias and dystopias

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A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.

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John Mac Kenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781784996475 ● File size 1.7 MB ● Editor Andrekos Varnava ● Publisher Manchester University Press ● City Manchester ● Country GB ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5387286 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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