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Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

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Originally De la démocratie en Amérique · French

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 1835 993 pages
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Political Theory
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DDC 321.8042 LCC JK-0216.00000000.T713 2012 15.85 history of America1789-1799 (Révolution)1848 (Révolution de février)1848-185019th Century320.973410-18e siècle (fin)Abridged Audio - Misc. Nonfiction
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ISBN 9780140447606 English
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