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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... affairs would set him apart from and above his peers . He sensed that understanding America , the only country where the people governed , given the nearly total white male suffrage in 1830 , would provide a useful edge for anyone ...
... affairs would set him apart from and above his peers . He sensed that understanding America , the only country where the people governed , given the nearly total white male suffrage in 1830 , would provide a useful edge for anyone ...
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... affairs . There should be restraints on popular sovereignty , Tocqueville insists , limits to the sway of the majority . He writes , " The maxim that in matters of government the majority of a nation has the right to do everything , I ...
... affairs . There should be restraints on popular sovereignty , Tocqueville insists , limits to the sway of the majority . He writes , " The maxim that in matters of government the majority of a nation has the right to do everything , I ...
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... affairs , virtually relieving individuals of the need to think for themselves . The horrible prospect comes full circle when self- centered individuals , whose initial abandonment of public affairs ultimately led to the state's ...
... affairs , virtually relieving individuals of the need to think for themselves . The horrible prospect comes full circle when self- centered individuals , whose initial abandonment of public affairs ultimately led to the state's ...
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... affairs . Labeling slavery a moral abomination , he drafted a report urging its abolition in the French colonies . At the same time , however , he vociferously defended the French conquest of Algeria , asserting that it was a heroic ...
... affairs . Labeling slavery a moral abomination , he drafted a report urging its abolition in the French colonies . At the same time , however , he vociferously defended the French conquest of Algeria , asserting that it was a heroic ...
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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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