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Part II - 1857: The Year of Civilisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

Alan Lester ,
Kate Boehme  and
Peter Mitchell
Alan Lester
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Kate Boehme
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
Peter Mitchell
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Ruling the World
Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
 , pp. 187 - 272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Lester, A., ‘Settler Colonialism, George Grey and the Politics of Ethnography’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34, 3, 2016, 492–507.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Wilson, J., India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire, Simon and Schuster, 2016.Google Scholar

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Anderson, C., Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920, Cambridge University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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