Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900 / Kenneth D. Rose.

Author/creator Rose, Kenneth D., 1946-
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Routledge, 2014.
Descriptionxiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Travelers' writings, European.
United States--Description and travel.
United States--Foreign public opinion, European.
United States--Social life and customs. --1865-1918.

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.
General note"Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
LCCN 2013000906
ISBN9780415817646 (hbk.)
ISBN0415817641 (hbk.)
ISBN9780415817653 (pbk.)
ISBN041581765X (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E168 .R795 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold