America through British eyes.
Edition: [New ed., rev. and enl.]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
Subjects: National characteristics, American; United States -- Social life and customs; United States -- Description and travel; United States -- Foreign opinion, British
Notes: "An annotated bibliography": p. 503-519.
First ed. pub. 1923 under title: American social history as recorded by British travellers.
Table of contents: title: The father of his country, southern life / John Bernard; title: The three chief American cities in 1794 / Henry Wansey; title: Sundry observations upon American manners / John Melish; title: New settlers in America, 1817 / Henry Bradshaw Fearon; title: Energy and prosperity of American farmers / William Cobbett; title: Jefferson : northern and southern travel, 1816-17 / Francis Hall; title: A naval officer sees all sections, 1827-8 / Basil Hall; title: Domestic unmannerliness of the Americans / Frances Trollope; title: Washington in Jackson's day : southern slavery / Harriet Martineau; title: The dark side of slavery, 1838-39 / Fanny Kemble; title: A writer of sea tales on America / Frederick Marryat; title: Journeys by steamboat and canal / Charles Dickens; title: Metropolis and summer watering place / James Silk Buckingham; title: Life in old New Orleans, 1846 / Charles Lyell; title: American culture and American prospects / Alexander Mackay; title: President Lincoln and President Davis, 1861 / William Howard Russell; title: The border in wartime : Concord and its writers / Edward Dicey; title: The north and west in wartime / Anthony Trollope; title: The war-torn south / David Macrae; title: Estimate of American tendencies, 1882 / Herbert Spencer; title: American civilization in 1883-4 / Matthew Arnold; title: America the land of contrasts / James Fullarton Muirhead; title: Thirty years' development in American life, 1905 / James Bryce; title: Good-bye, America! / Henry W. Nevinson; title: Impressions of post-war America, 1927-8 / J. Alfred Spender; title: At the height of the boom / Collinson Owen; title: In the great depression / Mary Agnes Hamilton; title: America under the new deal / M. Philips Price; title: Some public occasions / C.V.R. Thompson; title: Midwest under Roosevelt / Graham Hutton; title: My America / Lord Tweedsmuir.