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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... aristocrats . Censorship returned , freedom of religion was in jeopardy , and equal access to careers blocked , as ... aristocratic and clerical privileges , and thought federalism a more promising antidote to centraliz- ation , with ...
... aristocrats . Censorship returned , freedom of religion was in jeopardy , and equal access to careers blocked , as ... aristocratic and clerical privileges , and thought federalism a more promising antidote to centraliz- ation , with ...
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... aristocracy in their provin- cial parlements , but with the virtual destruction of the nobility what would now resist the potential for centralized despotism ? America more than Britain seemed to hold the answer , since the local ...
... aristocracy in their provin- cial parlements , but with the virtual destruction of the nobility what would now resist the potential for centralized despotism ? America more than Britain seemed to hold the answer , since the local ...
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... aristocratic era to the democratic , the former charac- terized by respect for rank , the latter by the end of privilege based on birth . America was proof that the democratic spirit did not neces- sarily degenerate into anarchy and ...
... aristocratic era to the democratic , the former charac- terized by respect for rank , the latter by the end of privilege based on birth . America was proof that the democratic spirit did not neces- sarily degenerate into anarchy and ...
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... aristocratic preference for formality , order , and historical continuity . Like the provin- cial legal nobility of pre - revolutionary France , American lawyers , Tocqueville believes , constitute a sort of privileged body with a ...
... aristocratic preference for formality , order , and historical continuity . Like the provin- cial legal nobility of pre - revolutionary France , American lawyers , Tocqueville believes , constitute a sort of privileged body with a ...
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... aristocratic societies . But since mar- riage in America is a more voluntary contract between loving equals , Tocqueville notes that chastity and fidelity are thereafter more strictly enforced than in Europe . While family life is funda ...
... aristocratic societies . But since mar- riage in America is a more voluntary contract between loving equals , Tocqueville notes that chastity and fidelity are thereafter more strictly enforced than in Europe . While family life is funda ...
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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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