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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
