Unspeakable awfulness : America through the eyes of European travelers, 1865-1900 /
Rose, Kenneth D.(Kenneth David),1946-
"Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.
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.
Travelers' writings, European.