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Colonial lands which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryincluded most of Africa South and Southeast Asia and the islands of thePacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean provided a haven for manyEuropeans whose sexual inclinations did not fit neatly into the constraints ofEuropean society. This work is a thorough investigation of the connections ofhomosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s until the era ofdecolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number ofliaisons including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes E.M Forster orAndr? Gide and the historical situations which produced both the Europeans andtheir nonWestern lovers. Each of the case studies is a microhistory of aparticular colonial situation a sexual encounter and its wider implicationsfor cultural and political life. «
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