A LETTER ON THE GENIUS AND DISPOSITIONS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING A VIEW OF THE TAXATION OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE

Walsh, Robert

Verlag: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, London, 1810

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Octavo. iv, 252 pp. Third edition. Removed fro nonce volume; backed in paper. Some chipping to the margin in a few places; soiling to the first and last leaf; generally solid; six-digit number stamped at the top of the title page; a few instances throughout the text of a rubber stamp institutional stamp, now defunct. An explanation of the tyranny that Napoleonic bureaucracy imposed upon the empire, with an especial focus on the oppressive tax system. The author was a leading Catholic-American literary critic, founder of the first American quarterly, the American Review of History and Politics, and founder and editor of the American Quarterly Review. This extensive pamphlet draws on Walsh's three years of travel and study in France and Britain as a young man. It was republished in England and Lord Jeffrey said of it, in the Edinburgh Review (1853, p. 799), "We must learn to love the Americans when they send us such book as this" (cf. New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7768

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Titel: A LETTER ON THE GENIUS AND DISPOSITIONS OF ...

Verlag: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1810

Einband: Disbound

Zustand: Good binding