Democracy in America

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

by Alexis de Tocqueville

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Originally published as «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 1835993 pages

321.8042

Category: Political Theory
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 3
Editions known: 400

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 321.8042342.733320.973056342.73
Library of Congress (LCC): JK0216.T713 2012JK0216.T652125 2007JK0216 T7 1969JK0216.T65 1835b

Subjects

15.85 history of America1789-1799 (Révolution)1848 (Révolution de février)1848-185019th Century320.973410-18e siècle (fin)Abridged Audio - Misc. NonfictionAmerican National characteristicsAmerican cultureAmerican governmentAmerican society

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