Democracy in America and Two Essays on AmericaPenguin, 01/07/2003 - 992 páginas 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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... spirit as well , and to write books for their fellow countrymen . English writers Charles Dickens , Harriet Marti- neau , Frances Trollope , Germans Francis Grund , and Francis Lieber , and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about ...
... spirit as well , and to write books for their fellow countrymen . English writers Charles Dickens , Harriet Marti- neau , Frances Trollope , Germans Francis Grund , and Francis Lieber , and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about ...
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... spirit as it replaces , in some cases for better and others for worse , the aristocratic ideals that had flourished for centuries in England and France . Everything Tocqueville wrote about America was informed by his conviction xxiv ...
... spirit as it replaces , in some cases for better and others for worse , the aristocratic ideals that had flourished for centuries in England and France . Everything Tocqueville wrote about America was informed by his conviction xxiv ...
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... spirit of the age , the world - historic transformative process whereby hierarchical , deferential , and communal values were inexorably being sup- planted by new ideals of individualism and equality . Tocqueville remains to this day ...
... spirit of the age , the world - historic transformative process whereby hierarchical , deferential , and communal values were inexorably being sup- planted by new ideals of individualism and equality . Tocqueville remains to this day ...
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... spirit of association " and its " spirit of locality " -as funda- mental to its success in curbing the excesses of democracy . He is struck by how Americans love to form associations , to join voluntarily in varied private groups that ...
... spirit of association " and its " spirit of locality " -as funda- mental to its success in curbing the excesses of democracy . He is struck by how Americans love to form associations , to join voluntarily in varied private groups that ...
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... spirit of gain " also accounts for America having fewer great artists , distinguished scientists , and cele- brated poets , according to Tocqueville . Their exclusively com- mercial habits divert the American mind from the pleasures of ...
... spirit of gain " also accounts for America having fewer great artists , distinguished scientists , and cele- brated poets , according to Tocqueville . Their exclusively com- mercial habits divert the American mind from the pleasures of ...
Índice
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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