Democracy in America and Two Essays on AmericaPenguin, 1. juli 2003 - 992 sider 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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... allowing each generation to see themselves and their values in it . II The public philosopher for democratic and predominantly Prot- estant America was a Catholic aristocrat , to the manor born on 29 July 1805 , who spent much of his ...
... allowing each generation to see themselves and their values in it . II The public philosopher for democratic and predominantly Prot- estant America was a Catholic aristocrat , to the manor born on 29 July 1805 , who spent much of his ...
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... allowed to leave the Union at will ; wars would not become rarer as social conditions became more equal and Americans would tolerate compulsory conscription , just as they retained capital punishment in their criminal codes ; nor would ...
... allowed to leave the Union at will ; wars would not become rarer as social conditions became more equal and Americans would tolerate compulsory conscription , just as they retained capital punishment in their criminal codes ; nor would ...
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... allow meetings and demonstrations planned by radical and socialist reformers to take place , barricades went up in the streets of Paris and rioting ensued in which twenty people were killed . Three days later , the " bourgeois " king ...
... allow meetings and demonstrations planned by radical and socialist reformers to take place , barricades went up in the streets of Paris and rioting ensued in which twenty people were killed . Three days later , the " bourgeois " king ...
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Innhold
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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