Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: Reflections on consumption and empire

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 166-190

  Groot, Joanna De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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