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Topic: Economic Travel Literature

A number of very astute observers have written accounts of their travels during which they collected economic information, and described the political, economic, legal, and social condition of the countries through which they passed. Arthur Young’s Travels in France on the eve of the French Revolution are perhaps the best known of these. Thomas Hodgskin also wrote very interesting accounts of his trip to the northern German states where he thought that unwise intervention by the governments hampered German economic development compared to that taking place in Britain.

9 Titles in this Group:

authors and editors   title   pub. date ↑
author: Arthur Young, editor: Mathilda Betham-Edwards Arthur Young’s Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 1792
author: Thomas Hodgskin Travels in the North of Germany, 2 vols. 1820
author: Thomas Hodgskin Travels in the North of Germany, vol. 1 1820
author: Thomas Hodgskin Travels in the North of Germany, vol. 2 1820
author: Harriet Martineau Retrospect of Western Travel, 3 vols. 1838
author: Harriet Martineau Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 1 1838
author: Harriet Martineau Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 2 1838
author: Harriet Martineau Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 3 1838
author: Michel Chevalier Society, Manners and Politics in the United States 1839