The ‘British Space’: World-Empire-Continent-Nation-Region-Locality: A Historiographical Problem

History Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-94

  Robbins, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85044981843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14780542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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