New Travels in the United States of America, 1788 / J. P. Brissot de Warville; Durand Echeverria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brissot de Warville, J. P., author.

Contributor:

Echeverria, Durand, editor.

Echeverria, Durand.

Vamos, Mara Soceanu.

Series:

John Harvard Library

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geschichte Nordamerikas.

Travel.

United States--Description and travel.

Local Subjects:

United States--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

TABLE OF CURRENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF EUROPE

TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF THE UNITED STATES

LETTERS FROM M. C LAVI ÈRE TO M. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE

I Plan for the Study of the Political, Civil, Military, and Legislative Systems of the Free Americans

II Nature of the Soil, Agricultural Products, Immigration, etc.

III Plan for a Colony to Be Established in America

IV [Sites for French Settlements]

V [Opportunities for Investments in Land]

VI The American Debt

PLAN OF INVESTIGATION TO BE FOLLOWED DURING MY TRAVELS IN AMERICA

LETTERS OF J . P. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE

1 Le Havre

2 The Commerce of Le Havre

3 The Voyage to America

4 Boston

5 Journey from Boston to New York

6 Journey from Boston to New York by Way of Providence

7 New York

8 Journey from New York to Philadelphia

9 Journey to Burlington and Visit to Mr. Temple Franklin

10 A Visit to a Quaker Farm

11 A Visit from the Good Warner Mifflin

12 A Quaker Funeral and a Quaker Meeting

13 Visit to a Bettering House

14 The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane

15 Benjamin Franklin

16 An Invention for Navigating Against the Current-Thoughts on the Character of Americans and Englishmen

17 The Agricultural Society and the Library

18 The Market in Philadelphia and the Price of Foodstuffs

19 The General Assembly of Pennsylvania and a Description of Farm Owned by a Frenchman

20 A Journey by Two Frenchmen to the Ohio

21 The School for Negroes in Philadelphia-American Authors Who Have Written in Defense of Negroes

22 Efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade in the United States

23 The Laws for the Emancipation of Slaves Enacted by the Various States

24 The General Conditon of Negroes in the United States

25 Maple Sugar as a Substitute for Cane Sugar

26 A Plan to Transport American Negroes Back to Africa

27 Philadelphia

28 Farming Life and the Settlement of the Frontier in Pennsylvania

29 Climate and Disease in Pennsylvania

30 Common Diseases in the United States

31 Life Expectancy in the United States

32 The Philadelphia Prison

33 Quakers and Their Customs

34 Attacks Upon Quakers by Various Writers

35 The Growth of the Society of Friends-Their Religious Principles and System of Discipline

36 Quaker Political Principles

37 Journey to Mount Vernon

38 Observations on Maryland and Virginia

39 Virginia Tobacco and Tobacco Notes

40 The Shenandoah Valley

41 Journey from Boston to Portsmouth

42 The American Debt

43 American Imports

44 American Exports

45 The East Indies Trade-American Foreign Trade in General

46 The New Empire of the West

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-73150-6

OCLC:

1013963198