{"product_id":"d-kenneth-rose-unspeakable-awfulness-9780415817646","title":"Unspeakable Awfulness","description":"The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States. European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising. Their assessments of the 'American character' continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of late-nineteenth century America as seen through the eyes of its visitors.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIncluding vivid travellers' tales and plentiful illustrations, Unspeakable Awfulness is a rich resource that will be useful to students and appeal to anyone interested in travel history and narratives.","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53210684653910,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780415817646_1_53e6e0ca-4a35-45b8-bf9f-df1146ba14ff.jpg?v=1778520102","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/d-kenneth-rose-unspeakable-awfulness-9780415817646","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}