Race, empire, and the limits of nineteenth-century Scottish nationhood

Historical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 873-892

  Kidd, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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