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The Missing Link: the Imperial Dimension in Understanding Hanoverian Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Philip Lawson
Philip Lawson
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University of Alberta
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A Historiographical Comment
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The Historical Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 747 - 751
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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