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Democracy in America

Name: Democracy in America
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
ISBN: 9780140447606

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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 syst...

First published: 1945 993 pages ISBN: 9780140447606

Category: Political Theory
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 3
Language: eng

Subjects

Early AmericaAmerican governmentDemocracyAmerican cultureAmerican societyEthnography of AmericaFrench RevolutionUnited states, politics and governmentUnited states, social conditionsPolitics and government

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