1st Edition

The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846–1849

By Miles Taylor Copyright 1994
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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 This edition of the previously unpublished travel diaries of the M.P. and economic writer Richard Cobden (1804-1865) is not only a revealing account of Anglo-European politics before, during and after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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Cobden, Britain and Europe 1835-46; Cobden’s European tour, 1846-47; Cobden’s liberalism; The impact of Cobden’s tour; Note on the text; The diaries; France; Spain; The Mediterranean Coast; Rome and Naples; Tuscany, Piedmont, Lombardy and Venice; Austria; Saxony and Prussia; Russia; Lübeck and Hamburg; The Peace Congress at Paris, 1849; Index.

Biography

Miles Taylor