Kenneth D. Rose

Unspeakable Awfulness (eBook, PDF)

America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135098353
• Artikelnr.: 39190523

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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