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Crossing the Atlantic : travel and travel writing in modern times
Title
Crossing the Atlantic : travel and travel writing in modern times / edited by Thomas Adam and Nils H. Roemer ; with an introduction by Frank Trommler ; contributors: Ashley Sides ... [et al.].
ISBN
9781603442657 (cloth : alk. paper)
1603442650 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603442923 (e-book)
1603442928 (e-book)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
viii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2011
Series
The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 42
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
American travelers in Europe
'That humane and advanced civilization': interpreting Americans' values from their praise of Saxony, 1800-1850 / Ashley Sides
Internationalism, travel writing, and Franco-American educational travel, 1898-1939 / Whitney Walton
German travelers in the United States
Social crossings: German leftists view 'Amerika' and reflect themselves, 1870-1914 / Dieter K. Buse
Mapping modernity: Jews and other German travelers / Nils H. Roemer
Between modernity and antimodernity: from enthusiasm to hostility in German perceptions of big cities in America, 1870s-1930s / Andrew Lees
Gender and travel
Travel, gender, and identity: George and Anna Ticknor's travel journals from their 1835-36 journey to Dresden / Thomas Adam
The women of Palestine in American women's travel writing / James Ross-Nazzal.
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