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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 second volume is devoted to the United States economy of the 1830s, examining American agriculture, transportation, manufacturing and commerce.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Society in America
• Author: Harriet Martineau
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380
• EAN: 9781108003636
• ISBN: 110800363X
• ID: 02053953
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 480 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. July 2009

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