Caribbean borderland: Empire, ethnicity, and the exotic on the mosquito coast

Eighteenth-Century Life

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 117-138

  Rovers, Nicholas ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; NICARAGUA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

COLONIALISM; ETHNIC GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; NICARAGUA; POPULATION GROUPS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 33947518831     PISSN: 00982601     EISSN: 10863192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00982601-26-3-117     Document Type: Article

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