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An Africanist’s perspective on Priya Satia’s Empire of guns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2019

Giacomo Macola
Giacomo Macola*
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University of Kent, UK E-mail: g.macola@kent.ac.uk
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Journal of Global History , Volume 14 , Special Issue 3: Historicizing the global: an interdisciplinary perspective , November 2019 , pp. 461 - 462
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2 Ibid.

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