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Victorian Britain and ‘Primitive’ Africa: Figures and Tools of Imperialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

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Africa , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 118 - 127
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Copyright © International African Institute 1991

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