Ralph Waldo Emerson's English Traits, a travel book about his journey to England, also meditates on the effects of globalization and colonization. At a time when America was on the cusp of becoming a global power, Emerson ponders how to assure the “care and culture of men” against the “tyranny of trade.”

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