Democracy in America and Two Essays on AmericaPenguin, 2003 M07 1 - 992 páginas 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 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 study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Contenido
Chronology | vi |
Further Reading | xlix |
AUTHORS INTRODUCTION II | 11 |
PART 1 | 27 |
On the Origin of the AngloAmericans and on | 36 |
The Social Condition of the AngloAmericans | 58 |
The Principle of the Sovereignty of the People | 68 |
Judicial Power in the United States and its Effects upon | 116 |
Characteristics Peculiar to Historians in Democratic | 572 |
PART 2 | 583 |
How Individualism is Greater at the End of | 590 |
Connection Between Associations and News | 600 |
Connections Between Civil and Political | 604 |
How Americans Apply the Doctrine of Selfinterest | 613 |
Why Certain Americans Display an Exalted Form | 621 |
How Religious Belief Sometimes Diverts | 630 |
Political Jurisdiction in the United States | 124 |
The Federal Constitution | 130 |
PART 2 | 201 |
The Freedom of the Press in the United States | 209 |
Political Associations in the United States | 219 |
Government by Democracy in America | 228 |
What are the Real Advantages Derived by American | 269 |
How the Example of the Americans Does not Prove | 524 |
In what Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts | 537 |
How Literature Appears in Democratic Times | 543 |
The Literature Industry | 549 |
A Few Sources of Poetry in Democratic Nations | 559 |
Why American Writers and Speakers are Often | 565 |
How in Ages of Equality and Doubt it is Important | 636 |
How an Aristocracy May Emerge from Industry | 645 |
How Democracy Makes the Normal Relations between | 654 |
Why Americans are So Difficult to Offend at Home | 657 |
How Democratic Institutions and Customs Tend | 672 |
How the Girl Can Be Seen Beneath the Features of | 686 |
How Equality Naturally Divides Americans into | 700 |
Honor in the United States and in Democratic | 714 |
Why so Many Ambitious Men Exist in the United | 728 |
Why Democratic Nations Have a Natural Desire | 750 |
Notes | 863 |
EXCURSION TO LAKE ONEIDA | 929 |
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Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America Alexis de Tocqueville Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America Alexis de Tocqueville Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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