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Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914
Abroad in America Visitors to the New Nation 17761914 Author:Frances Wein (Editor), Marc Pachter (Editor) In these pages, the National Portrait Gallery highlights the observations of European, South American, Asian, and African visitors to the Untied States during the first century-and-a-half of its existence as a nation. The twenty-nine essays written by foreign writers, each discussing a compatriot's journey to the New World, and by American s... more »pecialists in the cultures of other travelers, trace across time and from many vantage points the emergence of this country. Abroad in America is, however, not only about the opinions of earlier observers of this land, but also, ineluctably, a contemporary compendium of international attitudes. « less