Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Bond Street Branch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1892
Genre: Catalogs
ISBN:

Immigrants on the Land

Immigrants on the Land
Author: George E. Pozzetta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1991
Genre: Acculturation
ISBN: 9780824074043

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Unspeakable Awfulness

Unspeakable Awfulness
Author: Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1135098352

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.