From the Outer World

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish, and include such authors as Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Naipaul and Octavio Paz.

About the author

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, was Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was the editor of This Was America.Lilian Handlin is author of George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat and coauthor, with Oscar Handlin, of the four-volume History of Liberty in America.

Summary

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish, and include such authors as Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Naipaul and Octavio Paz.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lilian Handlin (Editor), Lillian Handlin (Editor), Oscar Handlin (Editor), Handlin Lilian (Editor), Handlin Oscar (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.1997
• EAN: 9780674326408
• ISBN: 978-0-674-32640-8
• Weight: 658 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & social sciences, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TRAVEL / United States / General, Travel writing, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Society and Social Sciences, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)