Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London - Tourist Views of the Imperial Capital

Informationen zum Autor Joseph De Sapio obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2011. He is currently working on an economic model of tourist visits to London, and a larger project which examines colonial sailors in the Royal Navy during the nineteenth century. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. 'The Bonds of Empire and Imperial Fraternity': London as Imperial Capital 2. 'How Differently We Go Ahead in America': American Constructions of British Modernity 3. 'A Kingdom In Itself': Domestic Perceptions of Metropolitan Space 4. 'England Has No Greatness Left Save her Industry': A Path to Disharmony Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Joseph De Sapio, J. De Sapio
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2014
• EAN: 9781137407207
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40720-7
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Geschichte, Tradition, England, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, B, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, History, Space, Westeuropa, Social History, Perception, world history, Kingdom, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Western Europe, individual, General and world history, imperialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Victorian era