British and French language and educational policies in the Mandate and Trusteeship Territories

Language Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 553-574

  Wolf, Hans Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

British and French colonial language and educational policy; Conceptions of the 'native'; League of Nations Mandates; Lugard; Phelps Stokes report; UN Trusteeship Territories

Indexed keywords

EID: 45149126724     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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