Author: MARTINEAU, (HARRIET), B. LAROCHE.
Title: De la société américaine par Miss Martineau. Traduit de l'anglais par Benjamin Laroche.
Description: Bruxelles, Société Belge de Librairie, Hauman & Comp., Société Belge de Librairie, Hauman & Comp., 1838. 2 vols. Small 8vo (16,5x11 cm). Halfcalf, with cornerpieces, spines finely gilt, with ribbons. Printed on fine paper, the original green wrappers preserved. Vol. 1: Politique, économie. iv,386 pp.; Vol. 2: Economie. 316 pp.- Very fine set. "Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach. A brilliant discussion of religious practices, social status, and childrearing, political apathy and the position of women, blacks and immigrants, and the American's casual approach to indebtedness and his speculative wealth-or-ruin schemes"(Minder). - Published a year before the first french edition of "Voyage en Amérique ou Tableau de la Société américaine". Gewicht/Weight: 600 grs.

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