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Building Better Britains? : Settler Societies in the British World, 1783-1920 /

"The effects of empires, as well as their lingering presence in today's world, have become a major preoccupation for scholars in the early twentieth-first century academy. The British Empire is of particular focus because of the rapidity and range of British imperial expansion over this pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morgan, Cecilia, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Colonial frontiers and contact zones : indigenous peoples and settler encounters
  • "Peopling," settling, and governing
  • Settler economies : local contexts and imperial networks
  • Creating civil society
  • Creating settler identities
  • Conclusion: better Britains?