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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866
Otros Autores: Taylor, W. C. (William Cooke), 1800-1849
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Temas:
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).