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Crossing the Atlantic : travel and travel writing in modern times
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- edited by Thomas Adam and Nils H. Roemer ; with an introduction by Frank Trommler ; contributors: Ashley Sides [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A and M University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (vii, 258 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781603442657, 9781603442923, 1603442650, 1603442928
- OCLC
- ocn726828954
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Travel writing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Travel writing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Travel writing -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
- Travel writing -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, German -- History and criticism.
- Women travelers -- History -- 19th century.
- Travel writing -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century.