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| Cushing, G. F. “EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY HUNGARY THROUGH BRITISH EYES.” New Hungarian Quarterly [Hungary] 1979 20(74): 151-165.
Abstract: A survey of British attitudes toward Hungary during the 18th century by means of excerpts from first-hand descriptions of the country, its people, and culture. The article includes travel accounts in various seasons of the year. Those from the latter part of the century reflect the impressive development taking place, and did much to change the generally negative view of the country so prevalent in the early part of the century. * Period: 18c. Brett, Patrick. “AMERICA, 1770-1771: FROM THE LETTERS OF A MIDDLE-CLASS ENGLISHMAN TO HIS SON . . .” British History Illustrated [Great Britain] 1979 6(2): 6-13. Abstract: Describes America through the eyes of Englishman Curtis Brett (1720-84), who traveled to the colonies in hope of purchasing an estate for retirement and as an inheritance for his son, Curtis Brett, Jr. * Period: 1770-71. Wexler, Alice R. “SEX, RACE AND CHARACTER IN 19TH CENTURY ACCOUNTS OF CUBA.” Caribbean Studies [Puerto Rico] 1978-1979 18(3-4): 115-130. Abstract: Examines some of the most important travel accounts by Americans who visited Cuba, 1829-85, and how historians have drawn upon these accounts to depict 19th-century Cuba and Cubans. These accounts are not descriptive of Cuban behavior but rather give an insight into US values and assumptions. * Period: 1829-85. Wesson, Kenneth R. “TRAVELERS' ACCOUNTS OF THE SOUTHERN CHARACTER: ANTEBELLUM AND EARLY POSTBELLUM PERIOD.” Southern Studies 1978 17(3): 305-318. Abstract: Emphasizes how visitors regarded common southerners rather than wealthy planters or merchants. Most typical was the farmer who was poor, practiced ruinous agricultural techniques, owned a few mangy animals, and lived in a one room cabin. He ate and dressed very simply, did not practice gracious hospitality, but did honor women, had a high honor code and followed some kind of Christianity. He was often lawless, violent, drunk, and lazy, used tobacco freely, loved hunting, and was generally illiterate, using peculiar variants of the English language. * Period: 1850-70. McDermott, John Francis. “RECONSTRUCTION OF A "LOST" ARCHIVE: THE DIARIES AND SKETCHES OF PRINCE PAUL WILHELM OF WURTTEMBERG.” Manuscripts 1978 30(3): 167-178. Abstract: Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Wurttemberg (1797-1860), nephew of King Frederick I of Wurttemberg, visited North America four times, 1822-57, keeping voluminous diaries on his trips. Following his death in 1860 the manuscripts of his diaries were deposited in the Royal Library at Stuttgart. They were destroyed during World War II, but the diaries were not entirely lost. It has been possible to reconstruct a large portion of them from other sources. * Period: 1822-60. Conrad, Glenn R. “SHOULD WE TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA?” Revue de Louisiane 1978 7(1): 35-48. Abstract: Discusses stereotypes of the South, especially Louisiana, before the Civil War; discusses social activities, Creoles, and economic conditions in rural areas; and analyzes (through travel accounts) visitors' attitudes to life-styles in Louisiana, 1800-60. * Period: 1800-60. Keller, Mark and Belser, Thomas A., Jr. “ALBERT PIKE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, INCLUDING HIS "LETTER FROM THE FAR, FAR WEST."“ Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1978 37(4): 318-353. Abstract: Discusses the poetry and prose contributions of Albert Pike (1809-91), Arkansas lawyer, to the New York Spirit of the Times. Included is the text of his "Letter from the Far, Far West" which describes a journey from Fort Smith, Arkansas, into Indian Territory in 1859. Travel experiences and scenery are described, and Pike gives his opinions of the Indians and their languages. * Period: 1843-59. Henry, Henry Abraham. “A SAN FRANCISCO RABBI REPORTS ON A VISIT TO SACRAMENTO IN 1858.” Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly 1978 11(1): 60-63. Abstract: A letter from Rabbi Henry Abraham Henry to Rabbi Samuel Meyer Issacs on 17 August 1858 described Rabbi Henry's recent visit to Sacramento, California. Rabbi Henry was invited to preach in the synagogue, and participated in the ceremonial placement of a monument on the grave of Mr. Julius S. Winehill. The president and trustees of the synagogue offered a gratuity for Rabbi Henry's services. Reprinted from the Jewish Messenger, New York, 24 September 1858. * Period: 1858. Kerkham, Caroline R. “RICHARD VAUGHAN YATES 1785-1856 TRAVELLER IN WALES.” National Library of Wales Journal 1978 20(3): 265-272. Abstract: Examines the travel accounts of Richard Vaughan Yates, a Liverpool Unitarian, concerning his journeys, in Ireland and Wales, which display both a romantic and scientific appreciation of landscape. * Period: 1785-1856. Wetta, Frank J. “AN ENGLISH GENTLEMEN'S SOUTHERN TOUR: THE RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS OF JOHN GEORGE DODSON, FIRST BARON MONK BRETON.” Southern Studies 1978 17(3): 291-303. Abstract: John George Dodson (1825-97) spent six months in 1853-54 visiting the southern states, recording his observations in a diary and notes intended for the basis of four articles: "The South," "Three Days in New Orleans in January, 1854," "Slavery as Practised," and "Slavery as a System." These articles reflect the race and class prejudices of a Victorian gentlemen, but Dodson was an unimpassioned, intelligent, better than average observer. New Orleans bustled with economic activity; slavery, while sometimes appearing benign, was actually repressive; familiarity with slavery bred acceptance. * Period: 1853-54. Morrow, James. “OPENING THE DOOR: THE MORROW JOURNAL.” American History Illustrated 1978 13(5): 40-42. Abstract: Excerpts from the travel diaries of Dr. James Morrow, an agriculturalist who accompanied the Matthew Perry expedition into Japan in 1854, offer impressions of Japan and relate Japanese reaction to a miniature steam locomotive and telegraph line and other inventions. * Period: 1854. Norton, John, transl. and ed. “ANDERS WIBERG'S ACCOUNT OF A TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1852-1853.” Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly 1978 29(3): 162-179. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Anders Wiberg describes the conditions of Swedish immigrants in Illinois and their problems in getting there. His return to New York was via St. Louis and the Ohio River to Columbus, Ohio. He comments about Swedes he had met, the country, and other people. He especially was taken with Niagara Falls. * Period: 1852-53. Norton, John, transl. and ed. “ANDERS WIBERG'S ACCOUNT OF A TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1852-1853.” Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly 1978 29(2): 89-116. Abstract: When he left for the United States, 16 July 1852, Anders Wiberg had been a Swedish Lutheran pastor of pietist leanings. On the ship Wiberg broke completely with the state church of Sweden. He was baptized in Copenhagen by the banished Swedish seaman-lay preacher F. O. Nilsson, father of the Swedish Baptist movement. From New York Wiberg journeyed to the western frontier as a colporteur in the service of the American Baptist Publication Society. His letters home were serialized in the liberal Stockholm newspaper, Aftonbladet, and must have profoundly influenced prospective emigrants. They also helped fuel the debate on religious freedom. He remained in America for two years and then returned in 1863 for three more years. The original of the Wiberg manuscript diary is in the archives of Bethelseminariet in Stockholm. * Period: 1852-53. Brown, George C., ed. “A SWEDISH TRAVELER IN EARLY WISCONSIN: THE OBSERVATIONS OF FREDRIKA BREMER.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1978 62(1): 41-56. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Covers the period of Swedish author Fredrika Bremer's travels in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, from 5 October 1850, when she visited Madison, to 15 October, when she left Galena (Illinois) for St. Paul (Minnesota) by steamboat. * Period: 1850. Brown, George C., ed. “A SWEDISH TRAVELER IN EARLY WISCONSIN: THE OBSERVATIONS OF FREDRIKA BREMER.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1978 61(4): 300-318. Abstract: Fredrika Bremer, Swedish novelist and author of travel narratives, visited the United States in 1849-50, and traveled in Wisconsin during the fall of 1850. Her account of her time in Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Galena, Illinois, is covered in a series of letters to her sister Agatha, which were later published in Homes of the New World. * Period: 1849-50. Langum, David J. “CALIFORNIOS AND THE IMAGE OF INDOLENCE.” Western Historical Quarterly 1978 19(2): 181-196. Abstract: Almost all Americans who traveled in California before the Mexican War characterized the male Californios as lazy, without personal initiative, and unwilling to work. The conventional causal explanations for these American attitudes of Manifest Destiny, Anglo-Saxon racism, and militant Protestantism are insufficient. Historians have confused correlation with causation. Russian, French, English, German, Swedish, and even Spanish writers expressed similar views of the Californios. This suggests that the American and European attitudes were probably more related to the Industrial Revolution than to the traditionally attributed causal factors. * Period: 1780's-1840's. Clements, William M. “FIVE BRITISH TRAVELLERS AND RELIGION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA.” Research Studies 1978 46(1): 44-49. Abstract: The treatment of popular religion in British visitors' travel accounts during 1800-30's are subjective and biased, but can provide useful information. * Period: 1800-30's. Lord, Gary T., ed. “JOURNAL OF ALONZO JACKMAN'S EXCURSION TO QUEBEC, 1838.” Vermont History 1978 46(4): 244-259. Abstract: A recent graduate of Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, and thereafter an instructor in mathematics and science, Jackman patterned his trip by stage, steamboat, and on foot, according to the excursions conducted by Alden Partridge, founder and president of the school. Fortification, and battles at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Plattsburgh, Isle aux Noix, Mount Royal, and Quebec, were at the center of Jackman's broad interests, which included mills, cathedrals, farming, and the homes of his college friends, but not so much the Canadian rebellions. * Period: 1838. Betley, J. A. “AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY POLISH TRAVELLER IN INDIA.” Indica [India] 1978 15(2): 127-134. Abstract: Count Wladyslaw Malachowski, an official of the Bank of Poland, is the first Pole known to have gone to India on official business. He visited India on a trade mission during 1830-31 and recorded his impressions in a manuscript now on deposit at the University of Warsaw. Malachowski visited Calcutta, Varanasi, and Agra. He suggested, well before the events of 1857, that religious issues might bring together mutinous Indian troops, formerly in the service of the East India Company, in an assault on British rule. * Period: 1830-31. Jacquemont, Victor; Antippas, A. P.; and Redman, Harry, Jr., transl. “LETTER ON AMERICA.” French-American Review 1978 2(3): 95-120. Abstract: Victor Jaquemont (1801-32), geologist and naturalist, spent a few months in 1826-27 visiting the United States, mainly New York State. During his voyage home he set down his impressions in a letter to a friend, Victor de Tracy. He criticized American society for hypocrisy which found expression in politics, religion, and economics. He noted the dearth of learning, and the lack of social graces, contrasting with the material prosperity. American treatment of other races, the Indians and colored slaves in particular, was a serious indictment of society, and revealed that the statements regarding freedom in the Constitution were not put into practice. * Period: 1826-27. Remini, Robert V., ed. “A NEW YORK "YANKEE" IN TENNESSEE, 1821.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1978 37(3): 278-292. Abstract: J. D. Steele of New York made several business trips in the 1820's through the western and northeastern states. His journal records his reactions to many aspects of frontier living, providing a number of glimpses into Tennessee life at different levels of society in 1821. Little is known about him, but he was apparently educated, upper middle class, knowledgeable in French, and an avid reader of Sir Walter Scott. This portion of the journal covers a trip made in 1821 as he entered Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap on 9 January through 3 March when he left Nashville for Kentucky. * Period: 1821. Fenton, William N. “CHEROKEE AND IROQUOIS CONNECTIONS REVISITED.” Journal of Cherokee Studies 1978 3(4): 239-249. Abstract: Analyzes John Morton's account of a visit among the Cherokee Indians in 1809; his knowledge of the Iroquois Indians allowed him to compare the customs of the groups, and his descriptions strengthen the view that similarities between the tribes resulted from the transfer of people between the groups rather than the view that the Iroquois originated in the South. * Period: 1809. Roeber, A. G., ed. “A NEW ENGLAND WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, 1801-1802: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF RUTH HENSHAW BASCOM.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 1978 88(2): 277-325. Abstract: Ruth Henshaw Bascom kept diaries of her Atlantic seaboard travels from 1799 to 1846. This excerpt is that of an unmarried woman, and reveals the place of Yankee merchants in the Virginia grain trade and the Yankee enclave that dominated Norfolk until the early 19th century. In 1802 Ruth Henshaw returned, with great relief, to Attleborough, Massachusetts. * Period: 1801-02. Ellicott, Andrew and Tebeau, Charlton. “FROM TAMPA BAY TO BISCAYNE BAY IN 1799.” Tequesta 1978 38: 72-82. Abstract: Reprints excerpts from the Journal of Andrew Ellicott (1803) of his trip from Tampa Bay to Biscayne Bay in 1799, with a short introduction by Charlton Tebeau. * Period: 1799. Bradshaw, Arnold. “WILLIAM VAN MILDERT'S VISIT TO THE NETHERLANDS IN 1792.” Durham University Journal [Great Britain] 1978 71(1): 45-53. Abstract: William van Mildert kept a very detailed account of his visit to the Netherlands in 1792. The style of the work suggests less an informal, spontaneous product than one designed to divert his friends on his return. It describes his visits to the major towns and cities of Holland and Belgium. He clearly preferred the Flemish towns and way of life to the Dutch, though he does not display much affection for foreigners in general. A final poem tells how relieved he was to be back in England. * Period: 1792. Schulte Nordholt, J. W. “GIJSBERT KAREL VAN HOGENDORP IN AMERICA, 1783-1784.” Acta Historiae Neerlandica [Netherlands] 1978 10: 117-142. Abstract: Hogendorp (1762-1834), later a prominent statesman and framer of the constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was a part of the first Dutch mission to the United States in 1783-84. Discusses his observations on aspects of American life, from slavery and the treatment of the Indians to applications of democracy. Hogendorp perceived that the United States would play a major role in European and world affairs. * Period: 1783-84. Smyth, William D. “TRAVELERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1978 79(2): 113-125. Abstract: Discusses travel accounts of South Carolina which describe the agriculture, daily life, culture, customs, race relations, trade, and social organization of the colony, 1730's-40's. * Period: 1730's-40's. Young, David. “MONTESQUIEU'S VIEW OF DESPOTISM AND HIS USE OF TRAVEL LITERATURE.” Review of Politics 1978 40(3): 392-405. Abstract: In his Esprit des lois, Montesquieu was less than fair and objective in his analysis of Asian governments. Montesquieu overlooked much available evidence in his advocacy of limited constitutional government. He did not do justice to travel accounts and to the Middle East. * Period: 1748. Ashliman, D. L. “THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN GERMAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES AND LITERATURE.” Journal of Popular Culture 1977 10(4): 833-837. Abstract: Discusses travel accounts of Germans in America, 1781-1890's, which discussed the nature, culture, and situation of American Indians. * Period: 1781-1890's. Paredes, Raymund A. “THE MEXICAN IMAGE IN AMERICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE, 1831-1869.” New Mexico Historical Review 1977 52(1): 5-13. Abstract: Most of the information available to the people of the United States concerning Mexico in the mid-19th century is found in travel accounts written by Americans visiting Mexico. As Mexico became more familiar to the Americans, fewer such accounts were published. One of the best assessments of New Mexico is found in Josiah Gregg, Commerce on the Prairies (1844). He is generally complimentary in writing about the people of New Mexico, but he thought the provincial government was corrupt. Other travelers from the United States who wrote about Mexico and Mexicans in the West and Far West included: James Ohio Pattie, Albert Pike, Mary Austin Holley, George Wilkins Kendall, Richard Henry Dana, Alfred Robinson, Walter Colton, Bayard Taylor, John Russell Bartlett, Albert Gilliam, Brantz Mayer, John T. Hughes, Frank S. Edwards, Captain W. S. Henry, Adolph Wislizenus, Rufus Sage, Samuel Hammett, William Shaler, Thomas J. Farnham, Thomas Davis, William H. Emory, W. W. H. Davis, and J. Ross Browne. * Period: 1831-69. Karsen, Sonja P. “LATIN AMERICA THROUGH GERMAN EYES.” Texas Quarterly 1977 20(4): 23-32. Abstract: Since the 16th century, Germans were curious about South America. When Emperor Henry V granted land to the Fugger and Welser banking families to pay off debts, these families attempted to settle colonies there but failed. Instead, the geographer, Alexander von Humboldt, and the novelist, Friedrich Gerstacker, gave Germany a clearer account during the 19th century of the land and people in South America than the explorers. * Period: 1801-68. Byrne, Cyril. “THE MARITIME VISITS OF JOSEPH-OCTAVE PLESSIS, BISHOP OF QUEBEC.” Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections [Canada] 1977 39: 23-48. Abstract: Translated parts of travel journals of Joseph-Octave Plessis, Catholic bishop in Quebec, 1812-15, offer his impressions of the Maritime Provinces, primarily Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. * Period: 1812-15. Merwin, M. M. “THOMAS RODNEY'S DIARY OF A JOURNEY BY CARRIAGE FROM DELAWARE TO NEW YORK CITY.” Delaware History 1977 17(3): 199-213. Abstract: Publishes Thomas Rodney's travel diary from Dover, Delaware, to New York City in 1790. Rodney took this trip while experiencing financial and political harassment. The trip was partly an attempt to resolve some of the pressing financial matters of the Rodney family estates. Describes Rodney's journey to New York via Wilmington, Philadelphia, and many small towns in New Jersey. Comments extensively on the effects of the Revolutionary War on New Jersey and the appearance of New Jersey towns. Also describes his route home, during which he met several prominent persons, including Martha Washington. * Period: 1790. Reynolds, Richard R. “MRS. PIOZZI'S "SCOTCH JOURNEY," 1789.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester [Great Britain] 1977 60(1): 114-134. Abstract: Hester Lynch Thrale's account of her tour of Scotland is of little historical value, but it demonstrates the brightness of her mind and style. Her observations can be compared to those of Samuel Johnson and Dorothy Wordsworth in their travels through Scotland. * Period: 1789. Stiverson, Gregory A. and Butler, Patrick H., III, eds. “VIRGINIA IN 1732: THE TRAVEL JOURNAL OF WILLIAM HUGH GROVE.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1977 85(1): 18-44. Abstract: Englishman William Hugh Grove's account of his visit to Virginia in 1732 provides one of the best descriptions of that colony written in the first half of the 18th century. Grove focused especially on the landscape, flora, fauna, and people. * Period: 1732. Liesegang, Gerhard. “NEW LIGHT ON VENDA TRADITIONS: MAHUMANE'S ACCOUNT OF 1730.” History in Africa 1977 4: 163-181. Abstract: The author examines the traditions of the Venda tribe, and describes an early 18th-century kingdom stretching from the River Limpopo to the Crocodile (Ngwenya), and including the much smaller area now inhabited by the Venda. The main evidence for the existence of this kingdom comes from the data on the Venda gathered between 1723 and 1730 by the Dutch at Delagoa Bay. The most substantial of these sources, part of which is transcribed and translated here, is the so-called "report of Mahumane." Mahumane was an African from the chiefdom of Mpfumo who visited the Venda King between 1727 and 1728. * Period: 1723-30. Downie, J. A. “EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND AS SEEN BY DANIEL DEFOE.” Eighteenth-Century Life 1977 4(1): 8-12. Abstract: Daniel Defoe, from trips 1708-12 into Scotland, offered a summary of the political, economic, and social atmosphere in the country but firmly supported union with England, so fervently opposed by the Jacobites. * Period: 1708-12. Kamei Shunsuke. “JAPANESE SEE AMERICA: A CENTURY OF FIRSTHAND IMPRESSIONS.” Japan Interpreter [Japan] 1976 11(1): 6-35. Abstract: Japanese travel accounts since the mid-19th century reveal much about the United States and its alternating positive and negative models. Japanese accounts of the United States display greater depths and wider vacillations as well as insatiable curiosity than do American accounts of Japan. The range between admiring approval and expressions of displeasure and disappointment starting with Fukuzawa Yukichi displays an awareness of the common problems found in the worldwide civilization of the 20th century. * Period: ca 1850-1975. Viccars, Marion. “A SWEDISH WRITER VISITS THE DEEP SOUTH IN 1851.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 1976 38(1): 30-43. Abstract: Miss Fredrika Bremer, a noted novelist from Sweden, visited America during 1849-51. Describes her visit to the South in 1851, listing persons she met and indicating some of her impressions of places visited. Quotes at length from letters to her sister, Agathe (published as The Home of the New World). * Period: 1851. Schoenman, Theodore and Schoenman, Helen Benedek. “SANDOR BOLONI FARKAS, AN EARLY HUNGARIAN TRAVELER IN AMERICA.” New Hungarian Quarterly [Hungary] 1976 17(63): 97-106. Abstract: Recalls the story of Sandor Boloni Farkas, a Hungarian nobleman from Transylvania who traveled through the United States at the same time as Alexis de Tocqueville (in 1831) and like him made observations on its social, economic and political institutions; unlike de Tocqueville, Boloni Farkas was a reverential admirer. * Period: 1830's. Stone, Albert, Jr. “SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE: ROMANCE AND REALISM.” Greek Orthodox Theological Review 1976 21(4): 341-350. Abstract: Examines the diary of Samuel Gridley Howe kept during a 1824 trip through Greece. * Period: 1824. Vaiciulaitis, Antanas. “STENDHAL IN LITHUANIA.” Lituanus 1976 22(2): 29-42. Abstract: The French author Stendhal (1783-1842) was in Lithuania briefly during Napoleon's Russian campaign when he served as a deputy war commissary responsible for securing food for the army. In July 1812 Stendhal passed through Vilnius enroute to Russia and in December during the French retreat he spent several days crossing Lithuania enroute to Konigsberg. As Stendhal's journals for the period have been lost and few letters survive, knowledge of his impressions of Lithuania is fragmentary and must be gleaned from brief paragraphs in his books and other writings. * Period: 1812. Sears, John F. “TIMOTHY DWIGHT AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: THE COMPOSING EYE IN DWIGHT'S TRAVELS IN NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK.” Early American Literature 1976-1977 11(3): 311-321. Abstract: Written over a number of trips through New England and New York during the 1790's, Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York viewed the American wilderness as an area of land waiting to be carved and refined by human hands which might preserve the values of colonial New England. * Period: 1790's. Curley, Thomas M. “JOHNSON AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVOLUTION: A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.” Studies in Burke and His Time 1976 17(3): 180-198. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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