Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828
Volume 2
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
- Author: Basil Hall
- Date Published: September 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108032841
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Captain Basil Hall (1788–1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. After attending the Royal High School in Edinburgh he joined the Navy in 1802, and was appointed captain in 1814. He served on many diplomatic and scientific naval missions, and on his retirement from the Navy began to publish accounts of his experiences, based on his journals. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828. Hall provides a fascinating and engaging description of social conditions, political structures and political tensions in Canada and America in the period, while also illustrating contemporary English prejudices concerning American society. Volume 2 contains his descriptions of New England, including Boston and Harvard University, with an analysis of mutual English and American misunderstandings of each others' societies and a discussion of the role of women in American society.
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- Date Published: September 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108032841
- length: 442 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 25 x 140 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Lake George
2. Albany
3. Court of Errors at Albany
4. Stockbridge
5. Northampton
6. Boston
7. Boston
8. Salem
9. Schools at Boston
10. Boston
11. Sketches of the rise and progress of the American Constitution
12. Law of elections
13. Theory and practice of democracy
14. Congress and state legislatures
15. Philosophical Society at New York
16. Publication of books in America
17. Journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore
18. Baltimore
19. On the American judicial system.
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