Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London
Tourist Views of the Imperial Capital
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Beschreibung
Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years.
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Joseph De Sapio
Themen in »Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London«
Victorian London Great Britain travel and tourism modernity industrial culture cities and societies rational recreation British Empire railway ocean voyages travel writing America construction eighteenth century empire