First edition 1923 under title: American social history as recorded by British travellers.
Contents:
The father of his country, southern life / John Bernard -- The three chief American cities in 1794 / Henry Wansey -- Sundry observations upon American manners / John Melish -- New settlers in America, 1817 / Henry Bradshaw Fearon -- Energy and prosperity of American farmers / William Cobbett -- Jefferson : northern and southern travel, 1816-17 / Francis Hall -- A naval officer sees all sections, 1827-8 / Basil Hall -- Domestic unmannerliness of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Washington in Jackson's day : southern slavery / Harriet Martineau -- The dark side of slavery, 1838-39 / Fanny Kemble -- A writer of sea tales on America / Frederick Marryat -- Journeys by steamboat and canal / Charles Dickens -- Metropolis and summer watering place / James Silk Buckingham -- Life in old New Orleans, 1846 / Charles Lyell -- American culture and American prospects / Alexander Mackay -- President Lincoln and President Davis, 1861 / William Howard Russell -- The border in wartime : Concord and its writers / Edward Dicey --
The north and west in wartime / Anthony Trollope -- The war-torn south / David Macrae -- Estimate of American tendencies, 1882 / Herbert Spencer -- American civilization in 1883-4 / Matthew Arnold -- America the land of contrasts / James Fullarton Muirhead -- Thirty years' development in American life, 1905 / James Bryce -- Good-bye, America! / Henry W. Nevinson -- Impressions of post-war America, 1927-8 / J. Alfred Spender -- At the height of the boom / Collinson Owen -- In the great depression / Mary Agnes Hamilton -- America under the new deal / M. Philips Price -- Some public occasions / C.V.R. Thompson -- Midwest under Roosevelt / Graham Hutton -- My America / Lord Tweedsmuir
