"The fit and unfit": Suitable settlers for Britain's mid-nineteenth-century colonial possessions

Victorian Literature and Culture

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 169-186

  Grant, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/S1060150305000781     Document Type: Article

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