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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book De Tocqueville's Voyage en Amérique written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Wilson Pierson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855061
Total Pages : 1764 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville in America written by George Wilson Pierson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.
Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429945737
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville's Discovery of America written by Leo Damrosch and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831–1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Damrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war. Drawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, Tocqueville's Discovery of America brings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.
Author : James T. Schleifer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226737055
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America written by James T. Schleifer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, Democracy in America continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. The work is, however, as challenging as it is important; its arguments can be complex and subtle, and its sheer length can make it difficult for any reader, especially one coming to it for the first time, to grasp Tocqueville’s meaning. The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” is the first book written expressly to help general readers and students alike get the most out of this seminal work. Now James T. Schleifer, an expert on Tocqueville, has provided the background and information readers need in order to understand Tocqueville’s masterwork. In clear and engaging prose, Schleifer explains why Democracy in America is so important, how it came to be written, and how different generations of Americans have interpreted it since its publication. He also presents indispensable insight on who Tocqueville was, his trip to America, and what he meant by equality, democracy, and liberty. Drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Tocqueville’s papers and manuscripts, Schleifer reveals how Tocqueville’s ideas took shape and changed even in the course of writing the book. At the same time, Schleifer provides a detailed glossary of key terms and key passages, all accompanied by generous citations to the relevant pages in the University of Chicago Press Mansfield/Winthrop translation. TheChicago Companion will serve generations of readers as an essential guide to both the man and his work.
Author : Christine Dunn Henderson
Publisher : Amagi Books
ISBN 13 : 9780865978706
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville's Voyages written by Christine Dunn Henderson and published by Amagi Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tocqueville's Voyages is a collection of Newly written essays by some of the most well-known Tocquevillian scholars today. The essays in the fisrt part of the volume explore the development of Tocqueville's thought, his intellectual voyage during his trip to America and while writing Domocracy in America. The second part of the book focuses on the dissemination of Tocqueville's ideas beyond the Franco-American contect of 1835-1840 in places such as Argentina, Japan and Eastern Europe. This book gives readers unprecedented access to the development of Tocqueville's thought as seen through the eyes of preeminent Tocquevillian scholars. Not only do the essays shed fresh light on the ideas in Democracy in America, but they also invite readers to reassess previous interpretations of Tocqueville's great work and to consider its continued relevance to the world.
Author : Hugh Brogan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300108033
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Alexis de Tocqueville written by Hugh Brogan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive portrait of the great French political thinker explores his life, work, travels in the United States, and writing of "Democracy in America."
Author : James T. Schleifer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865972049
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America written by James T. Schleifer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible fully to understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fully to appreciate Tocqueville by assuming that he brought to his visitation to America, or to the writing of his great work, a fixed philosophical doctrine. James T. Schleifer documents where, when, and under what influences Tocqueville wrote different sections of his work. In doing so, Schleifer discloses the mental processes through which Tocqueville passed in reflecting on his experiences in America and transforming these reflections into the most original and revealing book ever written about Americans. For the first time the evolution of a number of Tocqueville's central themes--democracy, individualism, centralization, despotism--emerges into clear relief. As Russell B. Nye has observed, "Schleifer's study is a model of intellectual history, an account of the intertwining of a man, a set of ideas, and the final product, a book." The Liberty Fund second edition includes a new preface by the author and an epilogue, "The Problem of the Two Democracies." James T. Schleifer is Professor of History and Director of the Gill Library at the College of New Rochelle
Author : Arthur Kaledin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300119313
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville and His America written by Arthur Kaledin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaledin offers an original combination of biography, character study and wide-ranging analysis of Toqueville's 'Democracy in America', bringing new light to that classic work.
Author : Jeremy Jennings
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674293118
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America written by Jeremy Jennings and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels—most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known. It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America. But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville’s voyages—by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot—across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville’s character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary. Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change—the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed French colonial settlement in Algeria. Drawing on correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center.
Author : Cheryl B. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198781318
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book De Tocqueville written by Cheryl B. Welch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought present critical examinations of the work of major political philosphers and social theorists, assessing both their initial contribution and continuing relevance to politics and society. Each volume provides a clear, accessible, historically-informed account of each thinker's work, focusing on a reassessment of their central ideas and arguments. Founders encourage scholars and students to link their study of classic texts to current debates in political philosophy and social theory. Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most topical and debated figures in contemporary political and social theory. This clear new introduction to de Tocqueville's thought examines in detail his classic works and their major themes. Welch argues thet Tocqueville's major themes tap into deep anxieties about democratic practices and his writings help us to identify the major fault lines in democracy at the turn of the new century. Beginning with a consideration of Tocqueville's distinctiveness against the historical background and intellectual context of his time, Welch goes on to trace the development of his thought on democracy and revolution, history, slavery, religion, and gender, including chapters dealing with his writings on France and the United States. The final chapter then explores Tocqueville's historical legacy and his contemporary significance, illuminating the reasons why this displaced nineteenth century aristocrat has become one of the most topical figures in contemporary political and social theory.
Author : Andre Jardin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374521905
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville written by Andre Jardin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first full-scale biography of Tocqueville after his death. Andre Jardin condensed the vast array of information on this intriguing figure into an indispensable resource. Tocqueville: A Biography provides an insightful account that explores the complex factors that shaped Tocqueville's writing, opinions, political career, and personal life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081821
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Posthumous America written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia”—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution—of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors’ liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. A vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young French aristocrat tours America in the early 1830s and composes his observations in a book on one nation's version of democracy.
Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679728260
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Democracy in America, Volume 2 written by Alexis De Tocqueville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-08-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.
Author : James T. Schleifer
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America written by James T. Schleifer and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible fully to understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America." Moreover, it is impossible fully to appreciate Tocqueville by assuming that he brought to his visitation to America, or to the writing of his great work, a fixed philosophical doctrine. James T. Schleifer documents where, when, and under what influences Tocqueville wrote different sections of his work. In doing so, Schleifer discloses the mental processes through which Tocqueville passed in reflecting on his experiences in America and transforming these reflections into the most original and revealing book ever written about Americans. For the first time the evolution of a number of Tocqueville's central themes--democracy, individualism, centralization, despotism--emerges into clear relief. As Russell B. Nye has observed, "Schleifer's study is a model of intellectual history, an account of the intertwining of a man, a set of ideas, and the final product, a book." The Liberty Fund second edition includes a new preface by the author and an epilogue, "The Problem of the Two Democracies."
Author : Bette W. Oliver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498535348
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Jacques Pierre Brissot in America and France, 1788–1793 written by Bette W. Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a decisive five-year period in the life of Jacques Pierre Brissot, one of the influential leaders of the French Revolution. An idealistic, somewhat naive journalist who became a member of the national assembly, Brissot championed the new American republic as an example for the French revolutionary government to follow. This book is not intended to serve as a biography of the Girondin leader, but rather to present an examination of his life between 1788, when he visited the United States, and 1793, when he was executed. As such, the narrative necessarily focuses on the events of the revolution as the ever-present background to Brissot's thoughts and actions. Both as a journalist and as a legislator, Brissot was consumed by the tumultuous events of the period under review. The book is based primarily on the publications, correspondence, and memoirs of Brissot, as well as materials from the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Archives Nationales, and relevant secondary sources. It also includes comparisons between Brissot's observations of America in 1788, published in 1791 as "Nouveau Voyage dans les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale, 1788," and those of his countryman Alexis de Tocqueville in his widely read "Democracy in America," which described his visit in 1831 and was published in 1835.
Author : Robert T. Gannett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226281086
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville Unveiled written by Robert T. Gannett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his unprecendented access to Tocqueville's papers, Robert T. Gannett Jr reveals the ingenuity of Tocqueville's analyses of issues such as landownership, administrative centralization, and public opinion in pre-reolutionary France.
