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Society in America Harriet Martineau

Society in America By Harriet Martineau

Society in America by Harriet Martineau


Summary

The British scholar Harriet Martineau spent two years travelling throughout the United States before writing this 1837 commentary on American society. Her three-volume work was the culmination of intensive research into the state of US politics, economics, civilisation and religion sixty years after the nation's birth.

Society in America Summary

Society in America by Harriet Martineau

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 first volume focuses on the United States government and the morals of American politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Politics: 1. Parties; 2. Apparatus of government; 3. Morals of politics.

Additional information

NLS9781108003629
9781108003629
1108003621
Society in America by Harriet Martineau
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2009-07-20
392
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