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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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