Intellectual of empire: Eric Dutton and hegemony in British Africa

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-27

  Myers, Garth Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Colonialism; Cultural hegemony

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; DUTTON,E.; HEGEMONY; HISTORICAL STUDY; URBAN PLANNING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0031810055     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8306.00082     Document Type: Article

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