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The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846-1849 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846-1849 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Discovery Miles: 39 990
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An account of the European vision of one of the most influential
statesmen and thinkers of the nineteenth-century. This edition of
the previously unpublished travel diaries of the M.P. and economic
writer Richard Cobden (1804-1865) is not only a revealing account
of Anglo-European politics before, during and after the year of
revolutions, but is also a travel guide to Europe in the
pre-railway age and a contribution to the intellectual biography of
an English provincial radical who became a major European
celebrity, one of the founders of Free Trade. During his extensive
continental travels Cobden met most of the monarchs and leading
statesmen of Europe, as well as artists, writers, churchmen and
fellow-travellers. His tour through France, Spain, the Italian
states, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the Hanseatic ports let him
witness the struggles between order and progress which led to and
succeeded the great upheavals of 1848. The diaries reveal Cobden in
a new light - a determined European, convinced that economic
cooperation and not protectionism and militarism was the only way
to preserve international stability.
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