Author

Publication

1822 - W. & C. Tait, Edinburgh, Scotland

Language

English

Word Count

82,500 words, Guess

Page Count

330 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCF518 .F62

Description

James Flint (1781-1855) was a Scottish economist who went to America mainly to study prices, wages, land questions and labor problems. He wrote letters home describing America while traveling in New York and Pennsylvania, through Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio River to Cincinnati and the Falls of the Ohio. He addresses a wide range of subjects on American culture and the political and economic systems. Some topics mentioned in the Table of Contents are: Slavery and its effects, morals and manners, education, generosity, lawyers, doctors, clergy, Justices of the Peace, state legislatures, laying out of new towns and roads, paper money, Indians, manufactures, elections, a Methodist camp meeting, circuit court, and Americanisms.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 24780

Other Editions

  • Letters from America: containing observations on the climate and agriculture of the western states, the manners of the people, the prospects of emigrants, &cW. & C. Tait1822-01-01

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