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Society in America (Paperback)
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Society in America (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History, Volume 2
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The British scholar Harriet Martineau spent two years travelling
throughout the United States before writing her three-volume
commentary, Society in America, in 1837. Her lengthy journey began
in New York in the autumn of 1834, less than sixty years after the
birth of the United States, and she immersed herself in the
politics, economics, civilisation and religions of the country
before returning to England in the summer of 1836. Her travels took
her to the nation's capital, where she enjoyed the hospitality of
the president, witnessed Supreme Court proceedings and visited both
houses of Congress. She also went to prisons, hospitals and mental
institutions, literary and scientific foundations, factories,
plantations and farms around the land; lived in farmhouses and log
cabins; and travelled by horse, stagecoach and steamboat. This
second volume is devoted to the United States economy of the 1830s,
examining American agriculture, transportation, manufacturing and
commerce.
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