Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900
Autor Kenneth D. Roseen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 oct 2013
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415817646
ISBN-10: 0415817641
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 25 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415817641
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 25 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
General and UndergraduateCuprins
Introduction
Chapter 1: Character, Class, Dress, Advertising
Chapter 2: The Built Environment: Cities and Boosterism, Accomodations and Transportation
Chapter 3: Culture: Aesthetics, Language, Music, Humor, Copyright and Journalism
Chapter 4: Personal Habits: Dining, Drinking, Tobacco Chewing, and Gun Use
Chapter 5: Domestic Relations: Women, Men, Children and Their Education
Chapter 6: Race, Immigration, and Religion
Chapter 7: War, Politics, and Patriotism
Chapter 8: The West: Landscape, Human Inhabitants, and Decline
Conclusion
Chapter 1: Character, Class, Dress, Advertising
Chapter 2: The Built Environment: Cities and Boosterism, Accomodations and Transportation
Chapter 3: Culture: Aesthetics, Language, Music, Humor, Copyright and Journalism
Chapter 4: Personal Habits: Dining, Drinking, Tobacco Chewing, and Gun Use
Chapter 5: Domestic Relations: Women, Men, Children and Their Education
Chapter 6: Race, Immigration, and Religion
Chapter 7: War, Politics, and Patriotism
Chapter 8: The West: Landscape, Human Inhabitants, and Decline
Conclusion
Recenzii
"The book provides an excellent introduction to the 19th-century US following the Civil War, and thanks to the far-reaching number of topics and documented sources, inherently suggests numerous points of exploration for further study and research. Abundant notes, ample illustrations, and a very extensive bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - R. A. Shaddy, Queens College, CHOICE
"In researching this subject, Rose has clearly plumbed the depths of the extant published travel literature from this era. He demonstrates a nearly encyclopedic understanding of this material…Overall, Rose’s book is a welcome and necessary addition, an impressive, broadly sourced, well written work." -Richard Gassan, American University of Sharjah, The American Historical Review
"In researching this subject, Rose has clearly plumbed the depths of the extant published travel literature from this era. He demonstrates a nearly encyclopedic understanding of this material…Overall, Rose’s book is a welcome and necessary addition, an impressive, broadly sourced, well written work." -Richard Gassan, American University of Sharjah, The American Historical Review
Notă biografică
Kenneth D. Rose teaches history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Myth of the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, and American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition.
Descriere
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.
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.