Journeys To England And Ireland
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of nineteenth-century travel writing and political observation, Journeys to England and Ireland presents the celebrated French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's vivid firsthand accounts of his visits to Britain and Ireland during the 1830s. With the same penetrating analytical eye he brought to Democracy in America, Tocqueville chronicles the stark social contrasts of industrial England and the grinding poverty of Ireland under colonial rule, producing a portrait of two societies at a critical crossroads. Edited by J. P. Mayer, this volume compiles Tocqueville's private notes and journal entries, offering an intimate and unguarded perspective rarely found in his more polished works. The prose is sharp, empathetic, and unflinching — the observations of a man who understood that the conditions of ordinary life reveal the deepest truths about a nation's character and future.
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
Format: Paperback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of nineteenth-century travel writing and political observation, Journeys to England and Ireland presents the celebrated French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's vivid firsthand accounts of his visits to Britain and Ireland during the 1830s. With the same penetrating analytical eye he brought to Democracy in America, Tocqueville chronicles the stark social contrasts of industrial England and the grinding poverty of Ireland under colonial rule, producing a portrait of two societies at a critical crossroads. Edited by J. P. Mayer, this volume compiles Tocqueville's private notes and journal entries, offering an intimate and unguarded perspective rarely found in his more polished works. The prose is sharp, empathetic, and unflinching — the observations of a man who understood that the conditions of ordinary life reveal the deepest truths about a nation's character and future.