Retrospect of western travel
By: Harriet Martineau.
Edition: New ed. / with an introduction by Daniel Feller.
Series: American history through literature
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 -- Travel -- United States.; United States -- Description and travel.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
Description: "This new abridgement of the original 1838 edition offers a view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's condemnation of slavery and her championship of abolition and women's rights; her incisive portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson, and the Beechers; her observations of American schools, asylums, colleges, and prisons; and her eyewitness accounts of a presidential assassination attempt, a lynch mob, a slave auction, a Quaker wedding, and a Harvard commencement.

Historian Daniel Feller, author of The Jacksonian Promise, introduces the narrative, identifies the major characters, and provides an index for easy use."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197) and index.
Originally published: London : Saunders and Otley ; New York : Sold by Harper & Brothers, 1838.