A young French engineer and economist travels through England and then the United States of the 1830s, writing letters home on everything he sees. He studies railroads, canals and banks, the commerce of the West, democracy, religion and manners, and frames it all within a grand view of how Eastern and Western civilisation are drawing together.
A rich companion to Tocqueville, from the economist who later helped negotiate the Cobden–Chevalier treaty. Download the free EPUB.