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Ireland social, political, and religious /
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 acc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First epoch : from 1169 to 1535
- Second epoch : from 1535 to 1690
- Ch. I. Religious wars
- Third epoch : from 1688 to 1755
- Ch. I. Legal persecution
- Ch. II. The penal laws
- Fourth epoch : from 1776 to 1829
- Ch. I. Effects of American independence on Ireland
- Ch. II. The French revolution
- its effects in Ireland
- Ch. III. Catholic emancipation in 1829
- Part I
- Ch. I. External appearance in Ireland : misery of its inhabitants
- Ch. II. A bad aristocracy is the primary cause of all the evils of Ireland : the faults of this aristocracy are, that it is English and Protestant
- Ch. III. Tithes
- Ch. IV. The north of Ireland
- Ch. V. Irish character
- Ch. VI. Illusions of the Irish aristocracy
- Part II (annexed to part I in the translation)
- Ch. VII. How Ireland tends to democracy
- Part III
- Ch. I. The three principle remedies that have been proposed for the evils of Ireland
- Ch. II. Remedies proposed by the author
- the civil, political, and religious privileges of the aristocracy must be abolished
- Ch. III. It would be an evil to substitute a Catholic aristocracy for the Protestant aristocracy
- Ch. IV. How the Irish aristocracy should be abolished
- Part IV
- Ch. I. What will England do?
- Ch. II. Relations of English parties to Ireland
- Ch. III. General survey of the state of Ireland
- Preface, 1863 : a report on the present state of Ireland (1862-1863).