Memoir on Pauperism |
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Author:
| de Tocqueville, Alexis |
Introduction by:
| Himmelfarb, Gertrude |
Translator:
| Drescher, Seymour |
ISBN: | 978-1-56663-168-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
Publisher: | Ivan R. Dee Publisher
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $6.95 |
Book Description:
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In this neglected memoir, written just after the first volume of Democracy in America, Tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of Europe in his time had the fewest paupers, while the most opulent nation--England--had the most.
In this neglected memoir, written just after the first volume of Democracy in America, Tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of Europe in his time had the fewest paupers, while the most opulent nation--England--had the most.