Bringing the empire home: Women activists in imperial Britain, 1790s–1930s

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 230-250

  Midgley, Clare ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79957056302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511802263.011     Document Type: Chapter

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