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Sarah Irving
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire [PDF ebook]

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Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 208 ● ISBN 9781317315223 ● Utgivare Taylor and Francis ● Publicerad 2015 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4563930 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM

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