The French Education of Henry Adams

Meer over het boek

Appendices on Adam's philological and historical sources, marginalia to his copy of Jules Simon's edition of Descartes, and Tahiti items in the Adams collection. Contents include Ancestral Backround, Initiation, Introduction to History, The Literary Use of Three French Historians, Michelet's 'Histoire de France', In the Tracks of Renan, The Approach to Taine; Belles Lettres, Philosophic Descartes and Pascal, The Belated Exoticism.