Democracy In America Volume 1 By Alexis De Tocqueville

Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 304 pages
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Release : 2019-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1795248106

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Democracy in America - Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville. by Alexis De Tocqueville Pdf

is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years.In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead.They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character. The two also briefly visited Canada, spending a few days in the summer of 1831 in what was then Lower Canada (modern-day Quebec) and Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario).

Author : Alexis de Toqueville
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547387480

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville Pdf

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 : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724357611

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

De La Démocratie en Amérique: published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546707700

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Democracy in America is arguably the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society. Authored by Alexis de Tocqueville, a French diplomat, political scientist and historian, it is regarded as a classical account of the democratic system of the United States and has been used as an important reference ever since. Written in the 1830s, De Tocqueville saw the young nation in its infancy and yet his insights into American life and government remain surprisingly current.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226924564

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone. When it was published in 2000, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of Democracy in America—only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840—was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic thus far. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the nuances of Tocqueville's language, with the expressed goal "to convey Tocqueville's thought as he held it rather than to restate it in comparable terms of today." The result is a translation with minimal interpretation, but with impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references and a masterful introduction placing the work and its author in the broader contexts of political philosophy and statesmanship.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319242558

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

This new edition of Democracy in America makes Tocqueville’s classic nineteenth-century study of American politics, society, and culture available — finally! — in a brief and accessible version. Designed for instructors who are eager to teach the work but reluctant to assign all 700 plus pages, Kammen’s careful abridgment features the most well-known chapters that by scholarly consensus are most representative of Tocqueville’s thinking on a wide variety of issues. A comprehensive introduction provides historical and intellectual background, traces the author’s journey in America, helps students unpack the meaning behind key Tocquevillian concepts like "individualism," "equality," and "tyranny of the majority," and discusses the work’s reception and legacy. Newly translated, this edition offers instructors a convenient and affordable option for exploring this essential work with their students. Useful pedagogic features include a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, illustrations, and an index.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Democracy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020545927

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1698270798

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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Demoncracy in American is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years.In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character. The two also briefly visited Canada, spending a few days in the summer of 1831 in what was then Lower Canada (modern-day Quebec) and Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario).After they returned to France in February 1832, Tocqueville and Beaumont submitted their report, Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France, in 1833. When the first edition was published, Beaumont was working on another book, Marie, ou, L'esclavage aux Etats-Unis (two volumes, 1835), a social critique and novel describing the separation of races in a moral society and the conditions of slaves in the United States. Before finishing Democracy in America, Tocqueville believed that Beaumont's study of the United States would prove more comprehensive and penetrating.

Author : de Tocqueville, Alexis
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781577997665

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Democracy in America by de Tocqueville, Alexis Pdf

French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has for years been a classic for American political studies. The expansive 2-volume original is here provided in a new abridgement for students, giving an accessible yet complete picture of Tocqueville’s thought. With a new introduction by editor John D. Wilsey, this volume opens a clear window into American political, cultural, and religious history.

Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Digireads.com
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1420954121

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Democracy in America (Volumes 1 and 2, Unabridged) [translated by Henry Reeve with an Introduction by John Bigelow] by Alexis De Tocqueville Pdf

In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America," an exhaustive analysis of the successes and failures of the American form of government, a republican representative democracy. Tocqueville believed that over the past seven hundred years the social and economic conditions of humanity were progressively becoming more equal. The future was, in his opinion, inevitably drawing humanity towards the democratic ideal thus diminishing the power of the aristocracy. Tocqueville's predictions of the changing nature of human civilization seem almost clairvoyant in retrospect. First published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840, "Democracy in America" remains one of the most important historical documents of America and political analysis of its form of government. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, includes both unabridged volumes as translated by Henry Reeve, and an introduction by John Bigelow.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545001030

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Democracy in America - Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798563671881

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Democracy in America Volume 1 by Alexis De Tocqueville Pdf

De La Démocratie en Amérique published in two volumes, the first in 1835[1] and the second in 1840)[2] is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798560399115

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Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville Pdf

The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This same state of society has, moreover, engendered amongst them a multitude of feelings and opinions which were unknown amongst the elder aristocratic communities of Europe: it has destroyed or modified all the relations which before existed, and established others of a novel kind. The-aspect of civil society has been no less affected by these changes than that of the political world. The former subject has been treated of in the work on the Democracy of America, which I published five years ago; to examine the latter is the object of the present book; but these two parts complete each other, and form one and the same work.

Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 1589 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781775413929

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Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville Pdf

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.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Democracy in America † Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conducted in view of the imperfections that experience had developed in the government of the Confederation, and they were, therefore, practical and thorough. -Introduction