{"product_id":"domestic-manners-of-the-americans-isbn-9781881089131","title":"Domestic Manners of the Americans","description":"Richly informative on American manners and morals in the early ninteenth century, this famous travel account also reveals much about the contrast between British and American culture.  Introduction. \u003cp\u003eEntrance of the Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Orleans…Society…Creoles and Quadroons…Voyage up the Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompany on board the Steam Boat…Scenery of the Mississippi…Crocodiles…Arrival at Memphis…Nashoba.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeparture from Memphis…Ohio River…Louisville…Cincinnati.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCincinnati…Forest Farm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServants…Society…Evening Parties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarket…Museum…Phrenological Society…Miss Wright’s Lecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbsence of public and private Amusement…Churches and Chapels…Influence of the Clergy…A Revival.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchools…Climate…Water Melons…Fourth of July…Pigs…Moving Houses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemoval to the country…Walk in the forest…Equality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeasantry, compared to that of England…Early marriages…Charity…Independence and equality…Cottage prayer-meeting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheatre…Delicacy…Visit of the President.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Spring…Public ball…Separation of the sexes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCamp-Meeting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOmitted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeparture from Cincinnati…Society on board the Steam-boat…Arrival at Wheeling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeparture for the Mountains in the Stage…Scenery of the Alleghany…Haggerstown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaltimore…Catholic Cathedral…St. Mary’s College.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoyage to Washington…Capitol…City of Washington…Congress…Indians…Funeral of a Member of Congress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOmitted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmall Landed Proprietors…Slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFruits and Flowers of Maryland and Virginia…Elections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJourney to Philadelphia…Chesapeak and Delaware Canal…City of Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashington Square…American Beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuakers…Presbyterians…Itinerant Methodist Preacher…Market…Influence of females in society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn to Stonington…Thunder-storm…Emigrants…Illness…Alexandria.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Cooking…Evening Parties…Dress…Sleighing…Money-getting Habits…Tax-Gatherer’s Notice…Indian Summer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJourney to New York…Delaware River…Stage-coach…City of New York…Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies…Public Garden…Churches….Morris Canal Carriages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOmitted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJourney to Niagara…Hudson…West Point…Hyde Park…Albany…Yankees…Trenton Falls…Rochester…Genesee Falls…Lockport.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNiagara…Arrival at Forsythes…First sight of the Falls…Goat Island…The Rapids…Buffalo…Lake Erie…Canandaigua…State-coach adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn to New York…Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn L. Larson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History, Assistant Department Head, and Director of Graduate Education at Purdue University. Since 1994 he has been coeditor, with Michael Morrison, of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. His publications include \u003ci\u003eBonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1984) and \u003ci\u003eInternal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). Richly informative on American manners and morals in the early ninteenth century, this famous travel account also reveals much about the contrast between British and American culture.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989082030309,"sku":"NP9781881089131","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781881089131.jpg?v=1761782720","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/domestic-manners-of-the-americans-isbn-9781881089131","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}