Being American in Europe, 1750–1860

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i n d e x abolitionists, 152–53; African American, 161–63; and American nationalism, 154–55, 163–64; Anglophilia of, 157–58; 160, 162; on “aristocracy of race,” 155–56, 164–65; British, 157–61; on European racism, 156–59 Adams, John, 46, 48 Adams, Nabby, 71 Aiken, Daniel, 88, 93, 113 Aiken, Harriet, 129 Albert (prince), 113 Allen, Andrew, 30 Allen, Hugh, 160–61 Allen, John, 13; on extravagance of Americans abroad, 26; on ignorance of Britons toward Americans, 33–34 Allen, William, 13, 30, 34, 41; consumer behavior of, 38–39; criticism of English extravagance by, 27; on Pennsylvanian simplicity, 29 Allen, William G., 156, 159, 161 Ambler, Richard, 13, 14, 23 American Revolution, 63, 128, 130–31 Ames, Nathaniel, 95 Amory, Katherine Greene, 16, 17, 22, 28 Amory, Martha, 82–83, 104, 111–12 Anglophilia, 15–17, 18, 26, 48, 49–50, 134–35, 157–58, 160, 162, 186n14 Anglophobia, 48–49, 50, 136–38; decline of, 53–56, 140–41, 158–59 Anglo-Saxonism, 134–41, 142 anti-Americanism, 51, 161–62; decline of, in Britain, 53–56, 139–40 anti-Catholicism, 16–17, 19, 66–68, 115–22 antiquity, 22–23, 90–93 Apthorp, John, 30, 37, 40 aristocracy, 6, 32–33, 69–76, 85, 90, 109, 111–15, 145–46; allure of, for Americans, 73–76, 99–100, 111–12; inaccessibility of, 36–37 Armistead, Wilson, 157 Atlantic Ocean, 14 Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery (Monk), 116 Baillie, Matthew, 33 Baird, Robert, 167 Baker, Peter C., 144 Ballantine, Elisha, 128 Bancroft, George, 63–64, 70, 77, 143, 170–71 Bangs, Mary Grosvenor, 102 Bascom, Henry, 160 Baylor, John, 51 Beecher, Catharine, 101 beggars, 25, 27, 61–62, 88, 90, 146–47 Belcher, Jonathan, 12, 13 Bigelow, Andrew, 52, 53, 56, 66; reassessing Journal of Travels in England, 51 Bigelow, John, 169–70 Bingham, Anne Willing, 71 Black Ball Line, 3 Blenheim Palace, 20 Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 76, 100 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 48, 58, 59–60, 63 Bonaparte, Napoleon, III, 129, 132, 133, 144 Boswell, James, 33 Bowdoin, John Tucker, 60, 67, 69 Brace, Charles Loring, 132–33, 134 Breen, T. H., 37–38 224 Index Brewton, Mary, 40 Brewton, Miles, 40 Britain. See Great Britain Bronson, Charlotte Brinckerhoff, 82, 108 Brougham, Henry, 158 Brown, John Carter, 92, 120–21 Brown, Susan, 111 Brown, William Wells, 161, 162–63, 164 Buchanan, James, 137, 148 Buckminster, Joseph Stevens, 49, 65, 67 Bullard, Anne, 89, 102, 120 Bushman, Richard L., 111 Butler, Fanny. See Kemble, Fanny Byrnes, James, 30 Cabot, James E., 105 Cadwalader, John, 39–40 Calhoun, John C., 129 Calvert, George H., 148 Campbell, Thomas, 163 Carlton, Ambrose, 143, 144 Carroll, Charles, II, 24, 36, 40 Carroll, Charles, III (Charley), 12, 13, 24, 36; portrait of, 40; social circle of, 36 Cary, Thomas G., 109 Cass, Lewis, 111 Catholic Church, 6, 16, 66–68; art and architecture of, 17, 66–67, 116–22; and Catholic “envy,” 66–67, 116; immorality and, 99–100; poverty and, 19, 63–64, 99, 118; rituals and mass of, 16, 17, 68, 120–21; vitality of, 116–20. See also anti-Catholicism Chastellux, Marquis de, 38, 39 Cheever, George B., 83, 119 Cheever, Henry T., 97, 100, 108, 110, 118–19 Chew, Benjamin, 27–28 Child, Lydia Maria, 84 Civil War, U.S., 168–71 Clark, John A., 88, 92, 99, 117 Clarke, James Freeman, 109, 110 Classical Tour through Italy (Eustace), 54 Cobden, Alfred B., 140 Colles, Augusta, 111 Colles, Harriet, 110 Colles, James, 88, 100 Colman, Henry, 87, 89, 95, 98, 103, 113, 115, 120, 122 consumer revolution, 37–38 consumption, 37–44; éclat of, 38; varieties of, 37–38 Continental Europe: antiquity of, 22; contrasted with Britain, 18–20, 24–25; and ignorance toward Americans/United States, 34. See also specific countries Cook & Son (travel agency), 7 Coombe, Thomas, 27 Cooper, James Fenimore, 127; Home as Found, 81 Copley, John Singleton, 2; on France, 25, 28; Grand Tour portraits of, 40–41; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard, 40; sociability of, 37 cosmopolitanism, 80, 110, 112–13; consumption and, 39–40; nationalism and, 58–59, 80, 142–54, 167–68, 170–71 Cowper, William, 56 Cox, Samuel, 88, 89, 97, 101, 114, 129, 150 Craft, Ellen, 159, 163 Craft, William, 159, 163 Craig, Jimmy, 76–77 Cresson, Elliott, 97, 117–18, 121, 130 Cricketers, The (Copley), 30 Croghan, George, 14, 19; on France, 25 Cunard Line, 4 Custis, Martha, 120 Cutting, John Brown, 49, 58 Dallam...