The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock In Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Book Title: Victorian Visitors : Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Item Length: 9in

Item Width: 6in

Author: Rupert Christiansen

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Historiography, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Western, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions

Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2002

Genre: History, Social Science

Item Weight: 14.5 Oz

Number of Pages: 288 Pages