At home with history: Macaulay and the history of England

At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 32-52

  Hall, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 69749102663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511802263.002     Document Type: Chapter

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