Reading Tocqueville

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429945737
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tocqueville's Discovery of America written by Leo Damrosch and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831–1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Damrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war. Drawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, Tocqueville's Discovery of America brings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.

Author : Raf Geenens
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Tocqueville written by Raf Geenens and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here aim to set up a dialogue between the 'historical' and the 'contemporary' Tocqueville. In what ways does a contextualization of Tocqueville throw new light on his relevance as a political thinker today? How can a focus on his embeddedness in the political culture of the nineteenth century contribute to our understanding of his political thought? Or, conversely, how has the usage of Tocqueville's writings in day-to-day political debate influenced the reception of his work both in the past and today?

Author : George Wilson Pierson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855061
Total Pages : 1764 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tocqueville in America written by George Wilson Pierson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Regime and the Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tocqueville Alexis de
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681959011
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in America written by Tocqueville Alexis de and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unabridged Explanation of America to Europeans and of Americans to themselves “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”-Alexis de Tocqueville Both Volumes of Democracy in America with annotations included in this eBook In the two volumes of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Tocqueville talks about the democratic revolution that had been occurring over the past seven hundred years and applies his insights to the United States in 1835. Democracy in America is essential reading for every American and is required reading in many high school and college courses. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Author : Arthur Kaledin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300119313
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tocqueville and His America written by Arthur Kaledin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaledin offers an original combination of biography, character study and wide-ranging analysis of Toqueville's 'Democracy in America', bringing new light to that classic work.

Author : Hugh Brogan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300108033
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexis de Tocqueville written by Hugh Brogan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive portrait of the great French political thinker explores his life, work, travels in the United States, and writing of "Democracy in America."

Author : Alexis de Toqueville
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Toqueville and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Also, Tocqueville speculates on the future of democracy in the United States, discussing possible threats to democracy and possible dangers of democracy. These include his belief that democracy has a tendency to degenerate into "soft despotism" as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. He observes that the strong role religion played in the United States was due to its separation from the government, a separation all parties found agreeable. Tocqueville also outlines the possible excesses of passion for equality among men, foreshadowing the totalitarian states of the twentieth century as well as the severity of contemporary political correctness.

Author : Jill Locke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271046910
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville written by Jill Locke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775413926
Total Pages : 1589 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis De Tocqueville and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 1589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s, showing a primarily favorable view by Tocqueville as he compares it to his native France. Considered to be an important account of the U.S. democratic system, it has become a classic work in the fields of political science and history. It quickly became popular in both the United States and Europe. Democracy in America was first published as two volumes, one in 1835 and the other in 1840; both are included in this edition.