Our American Cousins

With an introduction by Owen R. Ashton and Alun Munslow, this 19th-century travelogue provides an insight into American manners, customs, experiences, institutions, politics and culture.

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This work is a 19th-century travelogue that provides an insight into American manners, customs, experiences, institutions, politics and culture. It includes topics on: the agitation for "Free Libraries"; the careers of ex-Chartists in America; one of the very first attacks on the exercise of power by trusts and corporations; social conditions of the people and labour movements; and miscegenation. This reprint should be of interest to scholars of modern British and American history, to historians of travelogue writing, Chartism, and working class biographies. It has an introduction by Owen R. Ashton and Alun Munslow.