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Whether the purpose is to soak up the scenery, raid the art galleries, or marry impoverished but titled Europeans, a million Americans invade Europe every year. In this book Foster Rhea Dulles recaptures the humor, romance, and sheer pleasure that are the trademarks of European travel. From the days of Abigail Adams to the present time, he tells the story of two centuries of American tourists in Europe.

Writers and artists, diplomats and honeymooners, socialites and expatriates, clergymen and spies---they're all here, including some of the most eccentric characters in history: rustic Ben Franklin, a marten fur cap on his head, charming the most celebrated salons of Paris; Iowa Indians breakfasting with Disraeli; prudish Longfellow resisting temptations in the mountains of Spain; plus mysterious Louis Littlepage, General Tom Thumb, Dorothea Dix, jumping "Jim Crow," and many others.

In AMERICANS ABROAD you see Europe through their eyes. Here is a Grand Tour that is truly different---a view of Paris and London, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canal, the Italian hill towns, and the Riviera which will charm and delight you. If you have ever been to Europe, plan to go, or merely dream of a future European adventure, this book is a must on your reading shelf.

Foster Rhea Dulles' broad experience as historian, author, teacher, and newspaperman gives him unique qualifications in the expert appraisal of American political and social history. Now a professor of history at Ohio State University, he has taught at Bennington, Smith, and Swarthmore colleges and at Columbia University. In 1953 he was visiting professor at the Seminar in American Studies at Salzburg, Austria, and in 1957 made a lecture tour of India for the U.S. State Department. His early experience as foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor gave him first-hand knowledge of Europe.

Dulles' The United States Since 1865 is published by the University of Michigan Press as part of the University of Michigan History of the Modern World series. Among his many other books are Twentieth Century America, America's Rise to World Power, The Road to Teheran, Labor in America, The Imperial Years, China and America, and America Learns to Play.

Preface

This book is an exploration of American travel abroad. It begins with some account of the little colonies in Paris and London at the close of the eighteenth century and carries the story through to the annual invasion of Europe by the tourist hordes of the mid-twentieth century. It describes such travel as it has gone through the amazing transformation from sailing packet and stagecoach, to the jet plane and chartered autobus. It also tells something of the impressions and reactions of these travelers under the changing circumstances in the historic relationship between Europe and America.

Contents I.  The Lure of Europe II.  Eighteenth Century III.  A First Invasion IV.  Transatlantic Passage V.  The Ways of Continental Travel VI.  The Grand Tour VII.  Some Midcentury Visitors VIII.  Changing Patterns IX.  New Cultural Ties X.  Wealth and Society XI.  On the Eve of Armageddon XII.  Between Two Wars XIII.  The Postwar Scene Bibliographical Notes Illustrations

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