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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
327 kr
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
462 kr
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Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white American woman with African ancestry. The couple's idealism fades as they repeatedly face racial prejudice and violence, and are eventually forced to seek shelter among exiled Cherokee people. Notable as the first abolitionist novel to focus on racial prejudice rather than bondage as a social evil, Beaumont's work was also the first to link prejudice against Native Americans to prejudice against blacks. This translation, with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson, provides modern readers with interesting insights into the inconsistencies and injustices of democratic Jacksonian society.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
413 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
300 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
441 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
313 kr
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Inbunden, Franska, 2022
457 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2022
342 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2022
470 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2022
356 kr
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Inbunden, Franska, 2022
441 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2022
313 kr
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Inbunden, Portugisiska, 2025
524 kr
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Häftad, Portugisiska, 2025
397 kr
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Inbunden, Franska, 2025
493 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2025
350 kr
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Inbunden, Franska, 2025
387 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2025
276 kr
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244 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2012
362 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2012
405 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2012
388 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2018
340 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2018
139 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2018
153 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2022
139 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2022
327 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2022
157 kr
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Häftad, Franska, 2018
389 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
306 kr
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This book provides the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Gustave de Beaumont’s first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France. The work contains a critical comparison of two competing American penitentiary disciplines known as the Auburn and Philadelphia systems, an evaluation of whether American penitentiaries can successfully work in France, a detailed description of Houses of Refuge as the first juvenile detention centers, and an argument against penal colonization. The work provides valuable insights into understanding Tocqueville as a statesman, as well as a comparative look at civic engagement in early American and French penal reform movements. The Translator’s Introduction provides historical context for understanding Tocqueville’s work in French penal reform and the major themes of the report. The book thus fills a void in Tocquevillian studies and extrapolates the roots of American and French criminal justice systems in the nineteenth century.