Soon, with the rapid development of the power and wealth of the United States, governing-class England, of all factions save the Radical, came to view America just as it would have viewed any other rising nation, that is, as a problem to be studied for its influence on British prosperity and power.

Again, expressions in print reflect the changes of British view--nowhere more clearly than in travellers' books.

After 1840, for nearly a decade, these are devoted, not to American political institutions, but to studies, many of them very careful ones, of American industry and governmental policy.
Buckingham, one-time member of Parliament, wrote nine volumes of such description.

His work is a storehouse of fact, useful to this day to the American historical student[18].

George Combe, philosopher and phrenologist, studied especially social institutions[19].