DES TROIS DERNIERS MOIS DE L'AMERIQUE MERIDIONALE et DU BRESIL,
suivi des personnalites et incivilites de la Quotidienne et du Journal des debats
(Last three months of South America and Brazil, followed by the personalities and incivilities of the daily newspaper and the debate journal.)
by M. De Pradt
Paris, Bechet; 1817
Signed copy
3 lvs., 160 pp., 1 leaf
Half leather cardboard binding
Sabín 64908. Palau 235.023.
Size: 5 1/4 by 8"
Very good condition, occasional minor foxing
Text in French


?Napoleon's first chaplain, Pradt was protected by Talleyrand, he gives us, here, an important study of colonialism in the New World, examining its history and its differences as practiced by the Dutch, the English, the French, the Spaniards and Portuguese.
It details French possessions in the Caribbean, slavery and the future of black Haitians, as well as Mexico, Central America, other Spanish possessions and Portuguese Brazil.
Pradt also discusses the expansionist tendencies of the United States.




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