The imperial subject: Geography and travel in the work of Mary Kingsley and Haiford Mackinder

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 450-472

  Kearns, Gerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa orientalism; Spatiality identity; Theory evidence gender

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; IMPERIALISM; KINGSLEY, M.; MACKINDER, H.; MOUNTAIN CLIMBING; SUBJECTIVITY;

EID: 0031396394     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1997.00450.x     Document Type: Article

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