The man who understood democracy the life of Alexis de Tocqueville /
"Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)-who was born in the shadow of the French Revolution and died a few years before the American Civil War-witnessed a remarkable era in the history of the West. His aristocratic family survived the revolutionary period, though many branches were cut down during t...
| Main Author: | Zunz, Olivier, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Physical Description: |
443 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Learning to doubt
- Everything about the Americans is extraordinary
- A crash course in Democracy
- Writing America in reverse order : prisons first, then freedom
- Testing American equality against British inequality
- When political theory becomes politics
- Color plates
- A synthesis of thought and action
- Abolitionist, nationalist, and colonialist
- Crushed at the helm
- A revolution "fully formed from the society that it was to destroy
- Catholicity and liberty.