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Britain through American eyes
Henry Steele Commager-
Frontmatter
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Introduction (page xix)
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1777-1800
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SAMUEL CURWEN, Loyalist, Longs to Return to Salem (page 3)
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ELKANAH WATSON Hears George III Recognize the Independence of the United States (page 14)
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JOHN ADAMS: "The King Listened with Dignity, but with an Apparent Emotion" (page 18)
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ABIGAIL ADAMS: "I Shall Never Have Much Society with This Kind of People" (page 23)
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THOMAS JEFFERSON: "The Inveterate Hostility of George III" (page 31)
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JOEL BARLOW Watches the Westminister Election of 1788 (page 34)
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GOUVERNEUR MORRIS: Kite-Flying to Test the Directions of the Wind (page 37)
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DR. WARREN: "The People Here Look for Facts: They Trust No Theory" (page 42)
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1800-1820
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WILLIAM AUSTIN: To Understand the English One Should Be a Plebeian, a Gentleman and a Nobleman (page 49)
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BENJAMIN SILLIMAN: A Young Yale Professor Prepares Himself for a Scientific Career (page 56)
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LYDIA SMITH: "Two of the Most Celebrated Characters of the Day" (page 69)
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SAMUEL F.B. MORSE: "The Only Way to Please John Bull Is to Give Him a Good Beating" (page 73)
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MORDECAI M. NOAH: Money Is "an Infallible Mantle, Which Covers Every Defect" (page 78)
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GEORGE TICKNOR Cultivates Lord Byron and Other Great Swells (page 83)
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EDWARD EVERETT Prepares for His Great Position (page 90)
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JOSEPH BALLARD: "Here Were Imprisoned Fifty Wretched Boys and Girls" (page 99)
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WILLIAM PRESTON: "Beggary, Starvation, Crime and Punishment Were on Every Side" (page 103)
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Discusses Reform and Revolution with Jeremy Bentham (page 110)
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RICHARD RUSH: "The Paradoxes and Anomalies of English Society" (page 117)
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GEORGE TICKNOR Meets Everybody Who Is Anybody (page 123)
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JOHN GRISCOM Visits Robert Owen's Model Town of New Lanark (page 130)
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WASHINGTON IRVING Introduces the Romantic Note (page 136)
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1820-1830
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CHESTER HARDING: "The Duke Honored Me with a Shake of His Hand" (page 147)
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JOHN NEAL Concludes That Bentham Is the Greatest Mind of the Modern Age (page 152)
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JOHN J. AUDUBON: "I Know Now That I Have Not Worked in Vain" (page 157)
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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Casts a Judicious Eye on English Society (page 166)
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1830-1840
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THE REVEREND CALVIN COLTON Views the Church of England: "There Is Less Outrage Than in Ireland; but the System Is the Same" (page 179)
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THE REVEREND HENRY MCLELLAN in Liverpool: The Poor Eat "The Bread of Bitterness" (page 184)
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NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Has Breakfast with Charles and Mary Lamb and Takes the Measure of English Gentlemen (page 188)
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THE REVEREND ORVILLE DEWEY Visits Wordsworth: The Example of America Doesn't Count (page 192)
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SALLIE STEVENSON: Victoria Becomes Queen and Turns the Heads of Young and Old (page 197)
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CHARLES SUMNER Is Impressed by the Elevated Character of the Legal Profession (page 201)
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HERMAN MELVILLE: Liverpool (page 214)
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WILLIAM GIBSON: A Philadelphia Doctor Revisits the Hospitals of Edinburgh and His Old Mentor, Sir Charles Bell (page 222)
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1840-1850
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GEORGE CALVERT: "The English Aristocracy Does Not Form a Caste" (page 233)
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CHARLES LESLIE Recalls Joseph Turner (page 237)
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CATHARINE SEDGWICK: "Order Is England's...First Law" (page 242)
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BRONSON ALCOTT: "Every Englishman Is a Fortification" (page 244)
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THE REVEREND HENRY COLEMAN Sees the Horrors of the Copper Mines (page 248)
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HENRY JAMES, SR.: Recollections of Thomas Carlyle (page 253)
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MARGARET FULLER Visits Carlyle: "It was Very Titanic and Anti-Celestial" (page 264)
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON on English Traits (page 268)
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WILLIAM WARE: The Materialism and Hypocrisy of the English (page 286)
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1850-1860
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FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED: The Farm Laborers Are Degraded, Brutal and Licentious (page 293)
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HORACE GREELEY Views the English Scene and Interprets the English Character (page 302)
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HENRY TUCKERMAN: Art Is "an Exotic Plant in England" (page 313)
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WARREN ISHAM: The Abominations of the English Legal System (page 317)
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Views Our Old Home (page 322)
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JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY: "Macaulay's Conversation Is the Perfection of the Commonplace" (page 338)
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JAMES HOPPIN: The Ineradicable Suspiciousness of the British Character (page 341)
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WILLIAM EVERETT: The Drawbacks and Advantages of Life on the Cam (page 345)
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1860-1870
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HENRY ADAMS Discusses the Blockade with Manchester Businessmen (page 357)
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CHARLES FRANCIS AND HENRY ADAMS Trace the Patters of English Opinion on the American Civil War (page 366)
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MOSES COIT TYLER on English Impressions of America: "An Amplitude, and a Splendor of Non-information" (page 380)
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JOHN LEWIS PEYTON: The Wilkes Affair—"It Was Not Because They Loved" the Confederacy "But Because They Disliked the Yankees" (page 387)
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THE REVEREND MONCURE CONWAY Sees Sheffield as a Battlefield with Casualties (page 391)
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JOHN FORNEY: "The Common Tongue Is Much Better Spoken in America" (page 396)
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PERCY ROBERTS: "The Spirit of Conservatism Deeply Imbues the National Character" (page 399)
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CONGRESSMAN GARFIELD Watches the Debate on the Reform Bill of 1867 (page 405)
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THE REVEREND ANDREW PEABODY Observes a Specimen of English Pulpit Eloquence (page 409)
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S. R. FISKE: The Tragic Lot of Women in England (page 414)
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HELEN HUNT JACKSON: The Faces of the Newhaven Fishwives Are "Full of Beauty" (page 419)
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL on a Certain Condescension in Foreigners (page 426)
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1870-1880
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CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Becomes a Romany Rye (page 437)
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MONCURE CONWAY: Joseph Arch Launches an Agrarian Revolution (page 441)
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CHARLES LORING BRACE: "Darwin Was as Simple and Jovial as a Boy" (page 451)
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JOHN BURROUGHS: English and American Characteristics Compared (page 454)
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EHRMAN SYME NADAL: The Dullness and the Comfort of English Society (page 460)
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JOHN FISKE: "What Could Be More Grand Than the Life I Have Led Here?" (page 464)
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ADAM BADEAU Thinks Poorly of English Aristocracy (page 477)
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RICHARD GRANT WHITE: "Englishmen as a Mass Are Philistine" (page 486)
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1880-1890
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EDWIN WHIPPLE: The English Mind Is "Coarse, Strong, Massive, Sturdy, Practical" (page 495)
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JANE ADDAMS Sees a London of "Hideous Human Need and Suffering" (page 500)
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THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: "Smith" and Brown's Hotel (page 507)
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CLAUDIUS PATTEN Deplores the Sorry State of Public Education in England (page 512)
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HENRY JAMES: English Scenes (page 517)
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GEORGE W. SMALLEY Describes the Passing Show in London (page 534)
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BRET HARTE: "Nowhere...in the Whole World Can You Find a Class Living So Entirely for Themselves" (page 543)
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1890-1900
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ALICE JAMES Is Not Enthusiastic about England (page 549)
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HENRY WHITE Is Impressed by G.O.M. and His Wife by the Queen (page 556)
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RICHARD HARDING DAVIS Follows an English Election (page 561)
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JOHN CORBIN: "The Superiority of English Sportsmanship" (page 568)
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PRICE COLLIER: In England Everything Is Done for the Men (page 573)
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CHARLES TUCKERMAN: The Englishman Makes Allowances for Foreigners (page 583)
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1900-1910
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ELIZABETH PENNELL Remembers Aubry Beardsley and the Yellow Book (page 589)
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CECELIA BEAUX: A Visit with the Darwins in Cambridge (page 594)
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JACK LONDON: "Here...Is Where the Blood Is Being Shed" (page 602)
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STARK YOUNG: The Grace and Sureness of Living (page 613)
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Takes Some London Films (page 617)
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THE REVEREND MONROE ROYCE: The Prosperity of the Farmer and the Misery of the Farm Laborer (page 633)
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EDITH WHARTON: An American Francophile Visits an American Anglophile (page 637)
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Visits the Lowly of London (page 648)
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WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Breathes the Air of Revolution in Lloyd George's England (page 658)
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1910-1920
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WALTER HINES PAGE Champions the Cause of Wartime England (page 669)
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GEORGE SANTAYANA: "He Carries His English Weather in His Heart" (page 687)
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1920-1948
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SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON: Oxford, "the Most Humane and Intelligent Group of People I Have Ever Known" (page 695)
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CHARLES RUMFORD WALKER: The Religion of Socialism on the Clyde (page 702)
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JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS: London "Has Managed to Keep Itself Green and Homelike and Beautiful" (page 712)
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MARGARET THORP: "Circumstances Cannot Be Altered: The Human Being Must Alter" (page 717)
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MARGARET HALSEY Prefers the English Ungentry to the Gentry (page 722)
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MARY ELLEN CHASE: Spring in England (page 729)
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VINCENT SHEEAN: "A Foolish Way to Govern, but It Worked" (page 736)
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J. FRANK DOBIE: "There Is Something of the Martyr in Their Resistance to Change" (page 744)
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HENRY STEELE COMMAGER: English Traits, One Hundred Years Later (page 749)
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Index (page 761)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AL | 46.4 (Jan. 1975): 581-581 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2924585 |
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Citable Link
Published: c1974
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- 9780070123663 (hardcover)