Syracuse
University Press
The Saratoga
Reader
Writing About an American Village, 1749-1900
Field Horne
The history of the village of Saratoga Springs and its earliest residents and
visitors are brought vividly to life through this primary collection of diaries
and correspondence.
Reviews
"Long before anyone had heard of Las Vegas, Miami, Aspen, or Nassau, Saratoga
Springs was America's most famous, most important, and most extravagant resort
community. Using travelers' accounts and other primary sources with imagination
and skill, Field Horne has not only related the impressive story of this unusual
New York village, but he has demonstrated how persons interested in the history
of other communities can recapture their own past."
Kenneth T. Jackson, president, New York Historical Society and Barzun Professor
of History, Columbia University
Description
In this book, 82 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europeans and Americans speak
through their writings. Their impressions of life in Saratoga Springs provide
the richest-known contemporary record of any American village. Sometimes full
of humor, sometimes critical, and sometimes taking the waters for poor health,
these writers are our guides through a century and a half of community history.
Author
Field Horne is a historian, writer, and editor whose books include The Green Country
Catskills: A History. He is a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of New York
State (forthcoming from Syracuse University Press) and lives in Saratoga Springs,
New York.
7 x 10, 272 pages
Paper $29.95 | 0-9747985-0-9 | 2004
Distributed for Kiskatom Publishing
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of the Jew in American Literature: From Early Republic to Mass Immigration
Louis
Harap, Morris U. Schappes (Contributor)
List Price: $39.95 Hardcover
* Paperback: 616 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.28 x 9.34 x 6.24 $19.95
* Publisher: Syracuse University Press; 2nd edition (February 2003)
* ISBN: 0815629915
January
11, 2005