A Citizen of the World: The Life of James Bryce

by John T. Seaman, Jr., John Seaman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845111267
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/2006
Series:	International Library of Historical Studies , #38
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Educated at Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, John Seaman is an independent scholar and writer living in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• The Measure of the Man
• Towards Public Life
• A Liberal Intellectual in Politics
• History and Politics, Past and Present
• An Age of Discontent
• Epilogue