Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A Respectful Apology for the Roman Catholic Peers' Bill. From the Devonshire Freeholder
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A Respectful Apology for the Roman Catholic Peers' Bill
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: J. N. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century
Author: William Edward Hartpole LeckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Writings and Speeches
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Ireland
Author: Gustave de BeaumontPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674031113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. Published to acclaim in France, Ireland remained in print there until 1914. The English edition, translated by William Cooke Taylor and published in 1839, was not reprinted. In a devastating critique of British policy in Ireland, Beaumont questioned why a government with such enlightened institutions tolerated such oppression. He was scathing in his depiction of the ruinous state of Ireland, noting the desperation of the Catholics, the misery of repeated famines, the unfair landlord system, and the faults of the aristocracy. It was not surprising the Irish were seen as loafers, drunks, and brutes when they had been reduced to living like beasts. Yet Beaumont held out hope that British liberal reforms could heal Ireland's wounds. This rediscovered masterpiece, in a single volume for the first time, reproduces the nineteenth-century Taylor translation and includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface to the 1863 French edition in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine. A classic of nineteenth-century political and social commentary, Beaumont's singular portrait offers the compelling immediacy of an eyewitness to history.