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Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London

Tourist Views of the Imperial Capital

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  • © 2014

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  1. Joseph Sapio
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: ‘The Capital of the Human Race’: The City as the Centre of Modernity

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    Pages 1-23

  3. ‘The Bonds of Empire and Imperial Fraternity’: London as Imperial Capital

    • Joseph De Sapio
    Pages 24-51

  4. ‘How Differently We Go Ahead in America!’: American Constructions of British Modernity

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    Pages 52-84

  5. ‘A Kingdom in Itself’: Domestic Perceptions of Metropolitan Space

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    Pages 85-117

  6. ‘England Has No Greatness Left Save in Her Industry’: London as a Path to Disharmony

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    Pages 118-145

  7. Epilogue: ‘The Vast Curiosity-Shop of All the World’: London and the Culture of Modernity

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    Pages 146-157

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 158-204
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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.

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.

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