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2014

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The Death of Queen Victoria: the Politics of Mourning for the British in the Gulf

Upon the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, instructions sent to the Native Agent at Sharjah on how to visibly mourn her death reveal aspects of the construction of empire via ritual mourning practices. Although Queen Victoria never set foot on the soil of the empire over which she was...

Lowe, Daniel
foreign relations, Sharjah, and Bushire