Unspeakable Awfulness : America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900 PDF
by Kenneth D. (California State University) Rose
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The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States.
For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar ‘Grand Tour’ of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting.
Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another. In Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States.
European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising.
Their assessments of the ‘American character’ continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of late-nineteenth century America as seen through the eyes of its visitors. Including vivid travellers’ tales and plentiful illustrations, Unspeakable Awfulness is a rich resource that will be useful to students and appeal to anyone interested in travel history and narratives.
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- Pages:288 pages, 25 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/07/2013
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- ISBN:9781135098353
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:288 pages, 25 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/07/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781135098353
