Rambles in Europe; Or, A Tour Through France, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain & Ireland in 1836
Author: Fanny W. Hall
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 260
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Author: Fanny W. Hall
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allison Lockwood
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780838622728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.
Author: Fanny W. Hall
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Published: 1838
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Izard Middleton
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781570031694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents 49 19th-century drawings by John Izarc Middleton - an American expatriate and South Carolina native who dedicated his life to the study of antiquity and classical ruins. Primarily known for his drawings of Grecian architectural remains, this text focuses on his views of Rome.
Author: John Doyle (bookseller, New York.)
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 248
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Juliana Adelman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1526146045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships. It offers a unique perspective on ordinary life in the Irish metropolis during a century of significant change and reform. At its heart is the argument that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. It uses a social history approach but draws on a range of new and underused sources, including archives of the humane society and the zoological society, popular songs, visual ephemera and diaries. The book moves chronologically from 1830 to 1900, with each chapter focusing on specific animals and their relationship to urban changes. It will appeal to anyone fascinated by the history of cities, the history of Dublin or the history of Ireland.
Author: Harold Frederick Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780810835542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Bess Beatty
Publisher: New Acdemia+ORM
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1955835349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of American women challenging domesticity by touring Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women’s proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a Grand Tour, a trip to Europe, between 1814 and 1914; this century between major European wars witnessed the golden age of American Grand Tours. Men and women alike were inspired by a Euro-centric education that valued the Old World as the fountainhead of their civilization. Reaching Europe necessitated an Ocean crossing, a disorienting time taking women far from domestic comfort. Once abroad, American women had to juggle accustomed norms of behavior with the demands of travel and customs of foreign lands. Wearing proper attire, even when hiking in the Alps, coping with unfamiliar languages, grappling with ever-changing rules about customs and passports, traveling alone—these were just some of the challenges women faced when traveling. Some traveled with their husband, others with female relatives and friends and a few entirely alone. Traveling companions had to agree on where to stay, when and where to dine, how to travel, and where to go. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 made clear that even in the twentieth century, a Grand Tour involved risk. Because more women survived then men, some insisted that the Titanic’s example should curb female independence. However, a growing number of women continued making a Grand Tour for the next two year. It was the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 that temporarily brought an end to a century of female Grand Tours. “Beatty’s ability to weave the experiences of hundreds of American women on the Grand Tour in Europe into a consistent narrative is per se a remarkable feat. But the author does much more than that. She uses the “journey” as trope to represent the long and difficult process of women’s emancipation, in its several cultural, psychological, social, and political dimensions.” —Susanna Delfino, Professor of American History, retired. University of Genoa, Italy
Author: Andrew Oliver
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1617976326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travelers themselves.