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Globalization as “The White Man’s Burden”: Modernity and Colonialism in a Swedish Travelogue

Peter Forsgren
Scandinavian Studies, March 2019, 91 (1-2) 222-237; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.91.1-2.0222
Peter Forsgren
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