American social history as recorded by British travellers

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Allan Nevins, Allan Nevins
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577

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Table of Contents

Travellers of the first period, 1789-1825 : utilitarian inquiry
The father of his country, southern life / John Bernard
The three chief American cities in 1794 / Henry Wansey
Barbarism of the Virginia frontier / Thomas Ashe
Sundry observations upon American manners / John Melish
New settlers in America, 1817 / Henry B. Fearon
Energy and prosperity of American farmers / William Cobbett
Jefferson : northern and southern travel, 1816-17 / Francis Hall
Travellers of the second period, 1825-1845 : Tory condescension
A naval officer sees all sections, 1827-8 / Basil Hall
Domestic unmannerliness of the Americans / Frances Trollope
Washington in Jackson's day : southern slavery / Harriet Martineau
The dark side of slavery, 1838-39 / Fanny Kemble
A writer of sea tales on America / Frederick Marryat
Observations of a British consul, 1839-1846 / Thomas Colley Grattan
Journeys by steamboat and canal, 1842 / Charles Dickens
Travellers of the third period, 1840-1870 : unbiassed portraiture
Metropolis and summer watering place / James Silk Buckingham
Life in old New Orleans, 1846 / Charles Lyell
American culture and American prospects / Alexander Mackay
President Lincoln and President Davis, 1861 / William Howard Russell
The border in wartime : Concord and its writers / Edward Dicey
The north and west in wartime / Anthony Trollope
Travellers of the fourth period, 1870-1922
The war-torn south / David Macrae
American colleges and cities, 1881 / Edward A. Freeman
Estimate of American tendencies, 1882 / Herbert Spencer
American civilization in 1883-84 / Matthew Arnold
America the land of contrasts / James Fullarton Muirhead
The demonstrative citizens of dollardom, 1896 / George Warrington Steevens
Thirty years' development in American life / James Bryce
Good-bye, America! / Henry W. Nevinson.

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"An annotated bibliography": p. 556-568.

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New York

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Library of Congress
E169.1 .N52

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Pagination
2 p. l., iii-viii, 577 p.
Number of pages
577

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OL6660158M
LCCN
24000332
OCLC/WorldCat
1475463

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OL1181833W

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