Not Just Bonnets and Bustles: Victorian Women Travellers in Africa 9780955563041

Victorian Explorers and Travellers Collected Works 9781801701389

The Victorian era witnessed a surge of interest in discovering and exploring the most ‘unknown’ regions of the world. Le

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Victorian Explorers and Travellers Collected Works 9781801701389

The Victorian era witnessed a surge of interest in discovering and exploring the most ‘unknown’ regions of the world. Le

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Three Victorian Travellers 9781317269120, 9781138665651, 9781315619651, 9781138638426, 9781315637808

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Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science 0192893408, 9780192893406

Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why

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The Victorian soldier in Africa 9781526137913

This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period 1874-1902. It uses using a

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Women and the State in Africa 9781685853037

Explores women's access to the apparatus of the state in Africa, the consequences of their underrepresentation, and

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Penetrating Critiques: Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa 9781487513412

Penetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught p

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Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains: Peaks of Venice 9789048539314

Guided by the romantic compass of Byron, Ruskin, and Turner, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mount

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British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770–1870 9780367343347, 9780429325069

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Women and slavery in Africa 9780435074173

"Most slaves in sub-Saharan African were women." With that introductory and revolutionary sentence Robertson a

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