The Age of Capital, 1848-1875
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 1992
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844666068
Subjects: Business/Economics
First sentence: Early in 1848 the eminent French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville rose in the Chamber of Deputies to express sentiments which most Europeans shared: 'We are sleeping on a volcano...Do you not see that the earth trembles anew?