An edition of Letters from an American farmer and other essays
(2013)
Letters from an American farmer and other essays
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
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Social life and customs, Early works to 1800, American National characteristics, Description and travel, Farm life, History, National characteristics, american, Farm life, united states, United states, social life and customs, United states, description and travel, early works to 1800, Nantucket island (mass.)Times
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Letters from an American farmer and other essays
2013, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English
0674051815 9780674051812
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Table of Contents
Introduction : moving beyond "the farmer of feelings"
A note on Crèvecoeur's text and on emendations
Introductory letter
Thoughts, feelings and pleasures of an American farmer
What is an American?
Description of the island of Nantucket, with the manners, customs, policy and trade of the inhabitants
Customary education and employment of the inhabitants of Nantucket
Description of the island of Martha's Vineyard and of the whale-fishery
Manners and customs at Nantucket
Peculiar customs at Nantucket
Description of Charles-Town; thoughts on slavery; on physical evil; a melancholy scene
On snakes; and on the humming-bird
From Mr. IW-n AL-z, a Russian gentleman; describing the visit he paid at my request to Mr. John Bertram, the celebrated Pennsylvanian botanist
Distresses of a frontier man
A happy family disunited by the spirit of civil war
Rock of Lisbon
Sketches of Jamaica and Bermudas and other subjects
The commissioners
Ingratitude rewarded
Susquehannah
The grotto
Hospitals
A sketch of the contrast between the Spanish and the English colonies
A snow-storm as it affects the American farmer
The frontier woman
History of Mrs. B
The man of sorrow.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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