Crossing the Atlantic [electronic resource] : 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.].

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TextSeries: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 42. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2011. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (viii, 258 p. )Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781603442923
1603442928

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Electronic books.

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G220 .C76 2011

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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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