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Democracy in America de Alexis De Tocqueville

Democracy in America

Autor Alexis De Tocqueville
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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic 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 insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on democracy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781453730508
ISBN-10: 1453730508
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Notă biografică

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 to a noble French family that had survived the French Revolution. His father gained some political power under the reign of the Bourbons, and after the July Revolution of 1830, the family was exiled along with the king. Tocqueville, then twenty-five years old, stayed in France, swearing allegiance to the new government. Shortly thereafter he and a friend, Gustave de Beaumont, sought and received a government assignment to study the prison system of the United States. They arrived in America in 1831. After extensive travels across the young nation, Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America (published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840). The publication of the first volume made Tocqueville a well-known figure, but he led a quiet life, accepting modest governmental posts, traveling around Europe, and marrying an Englishwoman. In 1848, Tocqueville once again rose to political prominence after a prescient speech that foretold of revolution. After serving through the massive upheavals and overthrows of government, Tocqueville retired from political life in 1849. Always weak in health, his lung disease grew progressively worse from that period on. Moving south several times on doctor’s recommendations, Tocqueville succumbed to death in Cannes in 1859.

Richard D. Heffner received his A.B. and M.A. from Columbia University and has taught history and political science at the University of California, Sarah Lawrence College, and the New School for Social Research. He has been University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers since 1964. Mr. Heffner also produces and moderates his prize-winning weekly public television series, The Open Mind, and for twenty years was Chairman of the motion picture industry’s film rating system. In addition to Democracy in America, Mr. Heffner is the editor of the Mentor book A Documentary History of the United States.

Vartan Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. Prior to his current position, Gregorian served for nine years (1989-1997) as president of Brown University and for eight years (1981-1989) as President of the New York Public Library. He became founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and four years later became its twenty-third provost. Gregorian, an historian, was a professor at San Francisco State University, UCLA, University of Texas at Austin, Penn, and Brown.

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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.

Cuprins

Foreword

Preface

A Note about the Text and Translation

List of Illustrations

PART ONE

Introduction: Tocqueville and His Tour de Force

Tocqueville’s Life and Character

The Journey in America

Content and Key Themes of the Work

How Democracy in America Was Received

The Relevance and Legacy of Democracy in America

PART TWO

Democracy in America

Volume I

Author’s Introduction

Part I

  1. America’s Founding and Its Importance for the Future of Anglo-Americans

  2. Anglo-American Social Conditions

  3. The Principle of the sovereignty of the People in America

  4. The Need to Examine What Happens in Individual States Before Discussing the Government of the Whole

    Part II

  5. Why It Is Accurate To Say That In The United States, The People Govern

  6. The Real Advantages Derived By American Society From Democratic Government

  7. The Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Consequences

  8. What tempers the Tyranny of the Majority

  9. The Principal Causes Tending to Preserve a Democratic Republic in the United States

  10. A Few Remarks on Present and Probable Future Conditions of the Three Races Living Within the United States

    Volume II

    Preface

    Part I: The Influence of Democracy Upon the Intellectual Development of the United States

  11. The Principal Source of Beliefs Among Democratic Countries

  12. The Spirit in which Americans Cultivate the Arts

  13. Literary Production

  14. Certain Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Centuries

    Part II: Influence of Democracy on the Opinions of Americans

  15. Individualism in Democratic Society

  16. Individualism is Greater Following a Democratic Revolution Than In Any Other Period

  17. Americans Minimize Individualism with Free Institutions

  18. The Role of Voluntary Associations in America

  19. The Relationship Between Associations and Newspapers

  20. Connections Between Voluntary and Political Associations

  21. Americans Overcome Individualism Through the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood

  22. The Taste for Material Comfort in America

  23. Why Americans Appear So Restless Amidst Their Prosperity

  24. How Americans’ Love of Material Comfort Combines with the Love of Liberty and a Concern for Public Affairs

  25. How Aristocracy May Result from Industry

    Part III: Influence of Democracy on Customs as Such

  26. Education of Girls in the United States

  27. The Young Woman as Wife

  28. How Social Equality Helps Maintain Moral Behavior in America

  29. What Americans Mean by Equality of Men and Women

  30. American Society Appears Both Restless and Monotonous

  31. Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare

    Part IV: The Influence Exercised by Democratic Ideas and Attitudes on Politics

  32. Equality Naturally Leads to A Desire For Free Institutions

  33. The Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear

  34. An Overview of the Subject

APPENDIXES

A Tocqueville Chronology (1805-1859)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

Caracteristici

An abridged version of Tocqeville' classic text
Chapters selected are those that are, by consensus among scholars and teachers, the most representative of Tocqueville's thinking and those that continue to have considerable resonance
Editor's introduction helps students get the most out of the work, providing historical and intellectual background