Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900

by Kenneth D. Rose

Book Overview

The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415817641
• ISBN13: 9780415817646
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"