Palaces of pleasure : from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass...
Palaces of pleasure : from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass...
Palaces of pleasure : from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass entertainment / Lee Jackson.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/3351
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English
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xii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2019]
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The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their desires were satiated by determined entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in...
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Palaces of pleasure : from music halls to the seaside to football, how the Victorians invented mass entertainment / Lee Jackson.
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G 2019/3351
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74VKVeqlE3K3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVeqlE3K3
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ISBN
9780300224634
030022463X
DDC
940.2
MMS ID
991024252518402626
