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13 - Environment, Space, and Place: Cultural Geographies of Colonial Afro-Latin America

from Part III - Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2018

Alejandro de la Fuente
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
George Reid Andrews
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University of Pittsburgh
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Afro-Latin American Studies
An Introduction
, pp. 486 - 534
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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