Passage to America: Celebrated European Visitors in Search of the American Adventure

by Gloria Deak

Book Overview

America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics, culture and society, the American experience was vastly different - almost unrecognisably so - from Old World Europe. Europeans were astounded that America could survive without a monarch, a standing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780760752
• ISBN13: 9781780760759
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"