Retrospect of Western TravelM.E. Sharpe, 2000 - 202 sider Martineau's classic American travel narrative has long been unavailable. This new abridgment of the original 1838 edition offers an unsurpassed firsthand view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's penetrating 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 critical observations of American schools, asylums, colleges, and prisons; and more. Historian Daniel Feller, author of The Jacksonian Promise, introduces the narrative, identifies the major characters, and provides an index for easy use. |
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Arrival in America | 3 |
First Impressions | 6 |
The Hudson | 12 |
Weddings | 16 |
High Road Travelling | 16 |
Prisons | 35 |
First Sight of Slavery | 42 |
Life at Washington | 45 |
New Orleans | 109 |
Mississippi Voyage | 117 |
Compromise | 126 |
Cincinnati | 133 |
New England Villages | 143 |
Harvard College | 147 |
Mutes and Blind | 154 |
Signs of the Times in Massachusetts | 165 |
The Capitol | 61 |
Madison | 74 |
Jeffersons University | 82 |
Country Life in the South | 85 |
Charleston | 92 |
Restless Slaves | 105 |
Hot and Cold Weather | 174 |
American Originals | 179 |
For Further Reading | 197 |
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Retrospect of Western Travel: In Two Volumes, Volum 1 Harriet Martineau Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1838 |
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Side x - I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress.