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North America — Volume 1 eBook Anthony Trollope
So says Trollope, and it surprises me. More from Trollope about the US: it would be better for the country if smartness were not so essential. Meaning: Trollope encountered many instances during his US trip, where people were 'smart' and cheated their business partners. Honesty as a basis for solid business growth was not inherent in the US culture at the time.But government doesn't fare better: since Jackson, says Trollope, US governments were cradles of corruption.
Anthony Trollope visited the US five times in total. He went there during the early civil war for this book. The war had not been in his plans, but as it happened at the time, AT covered the war in this book. Not as a battle reporter but as an observer of effects on the places that he visited. In the process he comes out as a first class reporting talent.
The introduction has interesting thoughts about the question of the British neutrality in the civil war. Can that be compared to an American neutrality, hypothetically, during the 'mutiny' of 1857 in India? AT thinks not. That would, says AT, be more comparable to a British acknowledgment of an uprising of black Americans.
More of the same: there would be a similarity if the US would declare neutrality in the case of an Irish secession, thinks he. Hm.
He predicted secession whatever the outcome of the war. How could the nation stay together if one half of it was humiliated by defeat? He goes so far as to say that the North would benefit from secession.
In the long run, his prediction seems not entirely off, though the current schisms are not fully in line with the civil war front lines. Certainly the party divisions have been turned upside down.
During the trip, AT proves hard to please. He sees nothing attractive in Boston, nor in Newport. He hates American railway travel (uncomfortable for lack of a first class car). He hates Canadian roads. He dislikes American hotels in general. He dislikes the New York public transport system. He dislikes women in New York, and their current fashion. He dislikes New York in general. There is nothing to see.
He doesn't seem to like any habits that are un-English. I can't quite manage to like the small mind that he shows us in these moments.
He is somewhat more positive about Portland/ Maine, but bitches about the local alcohol restrictions. He likes the settings of Quebec, but not the town. He likes Milwaukee better than Detroit. He likes the Niagara Falls and the upper Mississippi a lot. He likes West Point.
I will drop the subject of AT's dislikes now. There is much honest dislike and much lukewarm praise, but not much enthusiasm.
I have read Dickens' travel book about the US recently. In comparison, I find Trollope's more interesting, if not always more genial. AT spends much time considering politics, much more than CD did. AT looks at things with a pragmatic eye, not as a romantic or an idler. Many of his observations are related to the conduct of the civil war, which he never comes near to, but the effects of which he comments on nearly everywhere. He looks at the economy (eg the effect of the blocked Mississippi exit on the Western grains economy).
While he generally sides with the North, he does not share the abolitionists' point of view, from considerations of practicality. He is mightily upset when the North takes two Southern ambassadors out of a British mail steamer. This happens while he is in Boston, and it makes him unhappy.
There are essays. The one on women's rights makes the man look a wee bit like a patronizing patriarch. The one on Lowell's charitable approach to running an industry is surely the right way to look at it. I don't know how the experiment ended, but ended it must have. The one on public lectures in Boston is rather interesting. When he pontificates on the greatness of the British system of church and state, he loses me entirely.
Trollope stayed for several months, and as he is continuously commenting on political developments, this is a historical document in its way. The book became so big that it was published in 2 volumes, the first ending with a trip from Boston to Washington via Philadelphia and Baltimore, which AT uses for a summary of the origin of the civil war.
I take a brake before I continue with volume 2.
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So says Trollope, and it surprises me. More from Trollope about the US it would be better for the country if smartness were not so essential. Meaning Trollope encountered many instances during his US trip, where people were 'smart' and cheated their business partners. Honesty as a basis for solid business growth was not inherent in the US culture at the time.
But government doesn't fare better since Jackson, says Trollope, US governments were cradles of corruption.
Anthony Trollope visited the US five times in total. He went there during the early civil war for this book. The war had not been in his plans, but as it happened at the time, AT covered the war in this book. Not as a battle reporter but as an observer of effects on the places that he visited. In the process he comes out as a first class reporting talent.
The introduction has interesting thoughts about the question of the British neutrality in the civil war. Can that be compared to an American neutrality, hypothetically, during the 'mutiny' of 1857 in India? AT thinks not. That would, says AT, be more comparable to a British acknowledgment of an uprising of black Americans.
More of the same there would be a similarity if the US would declare neutrality in the case of an Irish secession, thinks he. Hm.
He predicted secession whatever the outcome of the war. How could the nation stay together if one half of it was humiliated by defeat? He goes so far as to say that the North would benefit from secession.
In the long run, his prediction seems not entirely off, though the current schisms are not fully in line with the civil war front lines. Certainly the party divisions have been turned upside down.
During the trip, AT proves hard to please. He sees nothing attractive in Boston, nor in Newport. He hates American railway travel (uncomfortable for lack of a first class car). He hates Canadian roads. He dislikes American hotels in general. He dislikes the New York public transport system. He dislikes women in New York, and their current fashion. He dislikes New York in general. There is nothing to see.
He doesn't seem to like any habits that are un-English. I can't quite manage to like the small mind that he shows us in these moments.
He is somewhat more positive about Portland/ Maine, but bitches about the local alcohol restrictions. He likes the settings of Quebec, but not the town. He likes Milwaukee better than Detroit. He likes the Niagara Falls and the upper Mississippi a lot. He likes West Point.
I will drop the subject of AT's dislikes now. There is much honest dislike and much lukewarm praise, but not much enthusiasm.
I have read Dickens' travel book about the US recently. In comparison, I find Trollope's more interesting, if not always more genial. AT spends much time considering politics, much more than CD did. AT looks at things with a pragmatic eye, not as a romantic or an idler. Many of his observations are related to the conduct of the civil war, which he never comes near to, but the effects of which he comments on nearly everywhere. He looks at the economy (eg the effect of the blocked Mississippi exit on the Western grains economy).
While he generally sides with the North, he does not share the abolitionists' point of view, from considerations of practicality. He is mightily upset when the North takes two Southern ambassadors out of a British mail steamer. This happens while he is in Boston, and it makes him unhappy.
There are essays. The one on women's rights makes the man look a wee bit like a patronizing patriarch. The one on Lowell's charitable approach to running an industry is surely the right way to look at it. I don't know how the experiment ended, but ended it must have. The one on public lectures in Boston is rather interesting. When he pontificates on the greatness of the British system of church and state, he loses me entirely.
Trollope stayed for several months, and as he is continuously commenting on political developments, this is a historical document in its way. The book became so big that it was published in 2 volumes, the first ending with a trip from Boston to Washington via Philadelphia and Baltimore, which AT uses for a summary of the origin of the civil war.
I take a brake before I continue with volume 2.
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