Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION--Frank Trommler -- PART 1--American Travelers in Europe -- "That Humane and Advanced Civilization": Interpreting Americans' Values from Their Praise of Saxony, 1800-1850--Ashley Sides -- Internationalism, Travel Writing, and Franco-American Educational Travel, 1898-1939--Whitney Walton -- PART 2--German Travelers in the United States -- Social Crossings: German Leftists View "Amerika" and Reflect Themselves, 1870-1914--Dieter K. Buse -- Mapping Modernity: Jews and Other German Travelers--Nils H. Roemer -- Between Modernity and Antimodernity From Enthusiasm to Hostility in German Perceptions of Big Cities in America, 1870s-1930s--Andrew Lees -- PART 3--Gender and Travel -- Travel, Gender, and Identity George and Anna Ticknor's Travel Journals from Their 1835-36 Journey to Dresden--Thomas Adam -- The Women of Palestine in American Women's Travel Writing--James Ross-Nazzal -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.