Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's court : American encounters with Victoria and Albert /
"Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little inter...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
University of Delaware Press,
c2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Ch01. Republican Yankees; Ch02. Coronation and After; Ch03. Victoria and Albert; Ch04. Yankee Doodle Comes to Town; Ch05. Seeing the Queen; Ch06. Before the Deluge; Ch07. Civil War at Home; Ch08. An End to Seclusion; Ch09. Guest Tales; Ch10. "Grandmother England"; Ch11. Command Performances; Ch12. Jubilee Encore; Ch13. Last Encounters; Afterword. Caisson for a Queen; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources; Index; About the Author