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European Cloth and “Tropical” Skin: : Clothing Material and British Ideas of Health and Hygiene in Tropical Climates

As Britain’s imperial and colonial ambitions intensified toward the end of the nineteenth century, the preservation of white European health in tropical climates became an increasingly important concern. Since at least the seventeenth century, the “tropics” had been seen as spaces holding vast poten...

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Autor Principal: Johnson, Ryan
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400508/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19801795
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