Travel and World Power
Americans inEurope, 1890-1917
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16529285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanson Stephanson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 565-594 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diplomatic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-2096 • E-ISSN: 1467-7709 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0145-2096.00139 |
| OpenAlex | W2071449959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
“Going abroad was once a holiday. It has now become a function of high public importance.” So remarked the Nation in 1911, complaining that U.S. travelers returned from Europe believing themselves experts on international affairs.1 Behind the New York weekly's criticism of transatlantic travelers lay an important insight: private travel shaped the global outlook of the hundreds of thousands of upper-and affluent middle-class Americans who crossed the Atlantic between 1890 and the outbreak of World War I. For businessmen, tourists, wealthy women, cultural critics, policymakers, and other well-off Americans, travel to Europe became an increasingly common feature of their personal and professional lives. In their writings on travel, these Americans often presented implicit or explicit visions for the international position of the United States. A minority of these travel commentators, endorsing a traditional republican worldview that contrasted corrupt Europe with virtuous America, used the subject of travel to criticize
Criticism · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Position (finance · Power (physics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Vision · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |