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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph De Sapio, Joseph De Sapio
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349488148
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48814-8
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; B, History, Social History, Social & cultural history, world history, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, imperialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Imperialism and Colonialism