Undone by desire: Migration, sex across boundaries, and collective destinies in the greater Caribbean, 1840-1940

Studies in Global Social History

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages 302-337

  Putnam, Lara ^a  

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EID: 84948425563     PISSN: 18746705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004193161.i-552.77     Document Type: Review

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