London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. First edition of Harriet Martineau’s (1802 – 1876) assessment of American society developed during her travels between August 1834 and August 1836. In the ODNB, R.K. Webb writes that, “other than Alexis, comte de Tocqueville’s contemporaneous Democracy in America (1835; trans. 1835–40), [Martineau’s Society in America] be regarded as.....