Victorian America : transformations in everyday life, 1876-1915
(1992)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
973.8/SCHLERETH,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1992
EDITION
First HarperPerennial edition
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 363 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780060921606, 0060921609 :, 0060921609, 9780060921606
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue: Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876 -- Moving -- Working -- Housing -- Consuming -- Interlogue: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 -- Communicating -- Playing -- Striving -- Living and dying -- Epilogue: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915
Describes changes that occurred in the Victorian era, including immigration and the widening rift between rich and poor