The testing ground of modern empire; the making of colonial racial order in the American Ohio country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The testing ground of modern empire; the making of colonial racial order in the American Ohio country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s.

Strobel, Christoph.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2008

195 pages

$68.95

Hardcover

E78

This work by Strobel (history, U. of Massachusetts at Lowell) is a comparative history of colonial encroachment on the American frontie...

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