Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London Tourist Views of the Imper
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 sophi
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Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London
10.1057/9781137407221 - Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London, Joseph De Sapio
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Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London Joseph De Sapio
10.1057/9781137407221 - Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London, Joseph De Sapio
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Tourist Views of the Imperial Capital
© Joseph De Sapio 2014
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Contents
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1 ‘The Bonds of Empire and Imperial Fraternity’: London as Imperial Capital
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2 ‘How Differently We Go Ahead in America!’: American Constructions of British Modernity
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3 ‘A Kingdom in Itself’: Domestic Perceptions of Metropolitan Space
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4 ‘England Has No Greatness Left Save in Her Industry’: London as a Path to Disharmony
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Epilogue: ‘The Vast Curiosity-Shop of All the World’: Lond
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