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A Citizen of the World
Historian, politician, diplomat and traveller, mountaineer and man of letters: James Bryce (1838-1922) was a towering figure at the heart of 19th century British politics and public life. A popular British ambassador to the United States and acclaimed author of "The American Commonwealth", he also established himself as the foremost foreign observer of the United States since de Tocqueville. His life is a parable of the intellectual in politics, for the same versatility that seemed ideally to complement the reforming energies of mid-Victorian Liberalism left him unprepared for a changing world. John Seaman joins history and biography to recount a life of heroic failure and stubborn triumph, and in so doing, sheds new light on 19th century British politics and public life.
The Hindrances to Good Citizenship
Historian, jurist, diplomat, and member of Parliament, James Bryce (1838-1922) lived one of those remarkably full and fruitful nineteenth-century public lives that remain a wonder today. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913 and was one of the most knowledgeable, perceptive, and sympathetic interpreters of American civilization since Tocqueville. Bryce's writings reveal a constant and deep concern with the nature and maintenance of democracy. Hindrances to Good Citizenship, first presented as a series of lectures at Yale in 1908, addresses the special problems of civic duty in a democracy. It is an outstanding example of classic liberal thought. A society's standard ...
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This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Hindrances to Good Citizenship
First published in 1909. Historian, jurist, diplomat, and member of Parliament, James Bryce (1838-1922) lived one of those remarkably full and fruitful nineteenth-century public lives that remain a wonder today. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913 and was one of the most knowledgeable, perceptive, and sympathetic interpreters of American civilization. This is a collection of his Yale lectures.
Studies in Contemporary Biography
"Studies in Contemporary Biography" by Viscount James Bryce Bryce Bryce was a British academic, jurist, historian, and Liberal politician. In this book he gives concise biographies of various historic figures to give context to the changes and evolution of history and society. Those honored in the book include: Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, Thomas Hill Green, Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anthony Trollope, John Richard Green, Sir George Jessel, Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Earl Cairns, James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh, Charles Stewart Parnell, Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop and Cardinal, Edward Augustus Freeman, Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, William Robertson Smith, Henry Sidgwick, Edward Ernest Bowen, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, John Emerich Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, and William Ewart Gladstone.
