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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by Hugh Brogan.
Stock no. 1831417
Published by Profile Books Ltd..
1st
2006.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Cream pictorial endpapers, a few b/w plates. 724 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861975096. Light shelf wear to base of spine. Text block browned and has a few minor marks. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and is lightly scuffed.
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- POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Written by Simon Dixon.
Stock no. 1831344
Published by Profile Books Ltd..
1st
2009.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
More than a conventional biography, this is a full history of her rule and use of power. It shows how Catherine conceived of her power and how she represented it to her subjects, as well as how she wielded this power. Catherine's life and reign are a prism through which the culture and politics of her age are viewed. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w and colour plates. xv and 432 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861977229. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block. A few pale foxspots, mainly to prelims. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed.