Settlers at the end of empire

Settlers at the end of empire

Jean Smith

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Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de edición:
2024
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Historia de África
ISBN:
9781526182302
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Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study highlighting the connections between the racial politics of migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia in the second half of the twentieth century.

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