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Klappentext Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing New York City's Central Park, and parks in Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for The New York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations - including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slaves on all classes of society, black and white - were largely collected in the Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution". Zusammenfassung Frederick Law Olmsted (1822?1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for the New York Times , and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations?including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white?were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom . Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution." Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors Introduction * Olmsteds Early Years * The Journeys in the Slave States * Olmsteds Trilogy on the South * The Cotton Kingdom * The Problem of Bias * The South through Olmsteds Eyes Text of The Cotton Kingdom (Two Volumes in One) * Title Page of Original Edition of Vol.I in Facsimile Setup * Dedication to John Stuart Mill! Esq. * Table of Contents * Chapters I-XVIII * Appendices (A)! (B)! (C) and (D) * Editors Appendix (E): Olmsted on the Northern and Southern Characters ...
