Retrospect of western travel /
This abridgement of the original 1838 edition offers a view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's 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 observat...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
©2000.
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| 版: | New ed. / |
| 叢編: | American history through literature.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=90202 |
書本目錄:
- Series Foreword / Paul Finkelman
- Introduction / Daniel Feller
- Arrival in America
- First Impressions
- The Hudson
- Weddings
- High Road Travelling
- Prisons
- First Sight of Slavery
- Life at Washington
- The Capitol
- Madison
- Jefferson's University
- Country Life in the South
- Charleston
- Restless Slaves
- New Orleans
- Mississippi Voyage
- Compromise
- Cincinnati
- New England Villages
- Harvard College
- Mutes and Blind
- Signs of the Times in Massachusetts
- Hot and Cold Weather
- American Originals.