This Was America

True Accounts of People and Places

Oscar Handlin

    Introduction

    Part One: The Sources of American Nationality

    1. A Hollander Among the Indians
    Anonymous

    2. Peter Kaim, Scientist from Sweden
    Peter Palm
    3. The American Farmer-Gallic Style
    Crévecœur

    4. Moravian Travels in the Interior
    Anonymous

    5. A Revolutionary in the Making
    J. P. Brissot

    6. The Bitter Thoughts of President Moreau
    Moreau de Saint-Méry

    7. A Merchant of Hamburg
    Anonymous

    8. A Botanist's Gleanings
    F. A. Michaux

    9. A Bourbon who Refused to Forget
    De Montlezun

    10. The Jesuit Scholar
    C. A. Grassi

    Part Two: The Consequences of Expansion

    11. A Grand Duke in Search of a Country
    Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

    12. Philosopher of Politics
    De Toqueville

    13. A Savant from Austria
    Isidore Löwenstern

    14. Obbligato by Herz
    Henry Herz

    15. Correspondent from the Homeland
    O. M. Ræder

    16. The Homes of the New World
    Fredrika Bremer

    17. The Friends of Kossuth
    Mr. and Mrs. Pulzsky

    18. A Historian's Forebodings
    K. T. Griesinger

    19. Benjamin II
    I. J. Benjamin

    20. Geology Brings an Italian
    Giovanni Capellini

    Part Three: Urban America

    21. A Hapsburg Diplomat
    Baron von Hubner

    22. Chance in America
    E. O. Hopp

    23. An Amsterdam Journalist
    Charles Boissevain

    24. American Society--a Neapolitan Version
    Carlo Gardini

    25. A Russian Man of Business
    P. A. Demens [Tverskoy]

    26. Poet Beyond the Sea
    C. J. P. Bourget

    27. Operations of Politics
    Ernst Below

    28. The Natures of Waste
    Giuseppe Giacosa

    29. A Churchman from Hungary
    Count Van De Vaya Und Luskod

    30. The Abbé and the Strenuous Life
    Abbé F&ecute;lix Klein

    Part Four: The Burdens of Maturity

    31. American Socialisms--a German Version
    Arthur Holitscher

    32. Iberian Sketches
    Julio Camba

    33. What is Worth Imitating in America
    Alma Hedin

    34. The Problems of Normalcy
    Henri Hauser

    35. Sea Devil Conquers America
    Feliz von Luckner

    36. Man and Masses in the United States
    Ernst Toller

    37. American Paradises
    E. E. Kisch

    38. American Peoples
    J. C. Sleeswijk

    39. A Foreigner Looks at the TVA
    Odette Keun

    40. 1939
    André Maurois

    Bibliographical Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is the editor of This Was America.