America after Tocqueville : democracy against difference /

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Mitchell's new study uses Tocqueville's Democracy in America to study the present condition of democracy in the United States. He addresses socio-political tensions to ask if Americans have surrendered to what Tocqueville called the materialization of life, and if they are on their way to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Harvey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859. > De la démocratie en Amérique.
De la démocratie en Amérique (Tocqueville, Alexis de)
To 1865
Democracy > United States.
Equality > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
Democracy.
Equality.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Democratie.
Gelijkheid.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: thinking about American democracy
  • Democracy's experiment: from inequality to equality
  • Achieving a democratic civil society
  • Beginnings and history: red and white in Tocqueville's America
  • The New England township before the revolution: Tocqueville's American pastoral
  • A second beginning: black and white in Tocqueville's America
  • Difference, race, and color in America
  • Maintaining American democracy
  • The state, authority, and the people.

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