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Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900
- Title
- Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900 / Kenneth D. Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1946-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 travelers 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 this '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."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: America the Awful and the European Traveler -- Character, Class, Dress, Money, and Advertising -- The Built Environment: Cities and Boosterism, Accommodations and Transportation -- Culture: Aesthetics, Music, Language, Humor, Copyright and Journalism -- Personal Habits: Dining, Drinking, Tobacco Chewing, and Gun Use -- Domestic Relations: Women, Men, and Children and Their Education -- Race, Immigration, and Religion -- War, Politics, and Patriotism -- The West: Landscape, Human Inhabitants, and Decline -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9781
- ISBN
- 9780415817646
- 0415817641
- 9780415817653
- 041581765X
- LCCN
- 2013000906
- 40022775284
- OCLC
- 826123085
- Author
- Rose, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1946-
- Title
- Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900 / Kenneth D. Rose.
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO. SOCIAL HISTORY OF U.S. FROM EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE.
- Chronological Term
- 1865-1918
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022775284
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9781