American social history as recorded by British travellers
By: compiled and edited by Allan Nevins ...
Publisher: H. Holt and Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
Subjects: National characteristics, American; United States -- Social life and customs; United States -- Description and travel
Notes: "An annotated bibliography": p. 556-568.
Table of contents: title: Travellers of the first period, 1789-1825 : utilitarian inquiry; title: The father of his country, southern life / John Bernard; title: The three chief American cities in 1794 / Henry Wansey; title: Barbarism of the Virginia frontier / Thomas Ashe; title: Sundry observations upon American manners / John Melish; title: New settlers in America, 1817 / Henry B. Fearon; title: Energy and prosperity of American farmers / William Cobbett; title: Jefferson : northern and southern travel, 1816-17 / Francis Hall; title: Travellers of the second period, 1825-1845 : Tory condescension; 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: Observations of a British consul, 1839-1846 / Thomas Colley Grattan; title: Journeys by steamboat and canal, 1842 / Charles Dickens; title: Travellers of the third period, 1840-1870 : unbiassed portraiture; 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: Travellers of the fourth period, 1870-1922; title: The war-torn south / David Macrae; title: American colleges and cities, 1881 / Edward A. Freeman; title: Estimate of American tendencies, 1882 / Herbert Spencer; title: American civilization in 1883-84 / Matthew Arnold; title: America the land of contrasts / James Fullarton Muirhead; title: The demonstrative citizens of dollardom, 1896 / George Warrington Steevens; title: Thirty years' development in American life / James Bryce; title: Good-bye, America! / Henry W. Nevinson.