Losing faith in the civilizing mission: The premature decline of humanitarian liberalism at the Cape, 1840-60

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 364-383

  Bank, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003076711-18     Document Type: Chapter

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