Imperial vice: Sex, drink and the health of British troops in North Indian cantonments, 1800-1858

Guardians of empire

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 25-52

  Peers, Douglas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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