The Age of Capital
Subtitle: 1848-1875
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844669915
Subjects: General; History: World; Fiction
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?