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Observing America: the commentary of British visitors to the United States, 1890-1950

Robert Perry Frankel
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction: The Forebears (page 3)
  • 1 The Plight of the Cities: W. T. Stead and 1890s Urban America (page 17)
  • 2 The Bonds of Blood: W. T. Stead's Vision of Anglo-American Unity at the Turn of the Century (page 52)
  • 3 The Promise of America: H. G. Wells and the Progressive Era (page 76)
  • 4 The Global Stage: H. G. Wells on America's Emergence in the First World War (page 111)
  • 5 Main Street America: G. K. Chesterton and the Culture of the United States in the 1920s (page 140)
  • 6 The New Deals: Harold Laski, H. G. Wells, and Roosevelt's America versus Stalin's Russia (page 178)
  • 7 The Businessman's America: Harold Laski's View of the United States in the 1940s (page 212)
  • Conclusion: Lost Republic, Lost Tradition (page 243)
  • Acknowledgments (page 249)
  • Notes (page 251)
  • Bibliography (page 293)
  • Index (page 307)
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Published: c2007
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299218805 (hardcover)
  • 9780299218836 (ebook)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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