Introduction: Being at home with the empire

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-31

  Hall, Catherine ^a   Rose, Sonya O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511802263.001     Document Type: Chapter

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