Crossing the Atlantic
Subtitle: travel and travel writing in modern times
By: edited by Thomas Adam and Nils H. Roemer ; with an introduction by Frank Trommler ; contributors: Ashley Sides ... [et al.].
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures -- no. 42; Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures -- 42.
Publisher: Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603442657; 9781603442923
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: American travelers in Europe; title: 'That humane and advanced civilization': interpreting Americans' values from their praise of Saxony, 1800-1850 / Ashley Sides; title: Internationalism, travel writing, and Franco-American educational travel, 1898-1939 / Whitney Walton; title: German travelers in the United States; title: Social crossings: German leftists view 'Amerika' and reflect themselves, 1870-1914 / Dieter K. Buse; title: Mapping modernity: Jews and other German travelers / Nils H. Roemer; title: Between modernity and antimodernity: from enthusiasm to hostility in German perceptions of big cities in America, 1870s-1930s / Andrew Lees; title: Gender and travel; title: Travel, gender, and identity: George and Anna Ticknor's travel journals from their 1835-36 journey to Dresden / Thomas Adam; title: The women of Palestine in American women's travel writing / James Ross-Nazzal.