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Passage to America: Celebrated European Visitors in Search of the American Adventure
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America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics, culture, and society, the American experience was vastly different—almost unrecognizably so—from Old World Europe. Europeans
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Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
August 6th 2013
by I. B. Tauris
(first published June 6th 2013)
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I enjoyed this book over all. Some of the historical figures were more interested then others - their experiences in the US was more interested. Charles Dickens and Frances Trollope particularly.
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