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Tocqueville : The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty /
Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book, written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly concerned with France. "America, " Jaume says, "was merely a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of France." |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la liberte biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400846726 |