Democracy in America and Two Essays on AmericaPenguin, 2003. 7. 1. - 992페이지 A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing deomcratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... European experience even before he went to America . If Tocqueville found the reign of Charles X too reactionary , he was equally critical of what succeeded it in 1830 , the year democratic revolution spread across Europe . On 29 July ...
... European experience even before he went to America . If Tocqueville found the reign of Charles X too reactionary , he was equally critical of what succeeded it in 1830 , the year democratic revolution spread across Europe . On 29 July ...
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... Europe seeking to broaden the avenues of power , and behind it all Tocqueville saw the egalitarian ideals of Christ , the conviction that human beings were by nature equal and alike . In America people were , in fact , equal and alike ...
... Europe seeking to broaden the avenues of power , and behind it all Tocqueville saw the egalitarian ideals of Christ , the conviction that human beings were by nature equal and alike . In America people were , in fact , equal and alike ...
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... Europe . It was more democratic than Europe from the perspective of Tocqueville's second understanding of democracy as well . Alongside his social reading of democracy as a society of nearly equal men — a relatively new concept - is his ...
... Europe . It was more democratic than Europe from the perspective of Tocqueville's second understanding of democracy as well . Alongside his social reading of democracy as a society of nearly equal men — a relatively new concept - is his ...
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... Europe claimed to direct and administer society . Coming from the Bourbon as well as the Napoleonic tradition of a highly centralized administrative system , Tocqueville was surprised to discover that American society got along by ...
... Europe claimed to direct and administer society . Coming from the Bourbon as well as the Napoleonic tradition of a highly centralized administrative system , Tocqueville was surprised to discover that American society got along by ...
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... Europe's feudal and corporate past in which each person's status was determined by an inherited assignment to an estate or class , Americans never consider themselves aristocrats , peasants , or artisans for life , but rather self ...
... Europe's feudal and corporate past in which each person's status was determined by an inherited assignment to an estate or class , Americans never consider themselves aristocrats , peasants , or artisans for life , but rather self ...
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Democracy in America | 1 |
NOTES | 861 |
Two Essays on America | 873 |
TWO WEEKS IN THE WILDERNESS | 875 |
EXCURSION TO LAKE ONEIDA | 929 |
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