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Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rose, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
Subjects:
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Foreign public opinion, European.
Travelers' writings, European.
United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918.
Table of 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.