| Description |
xxvii, 428 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-412) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Tocqueville in the twenty-first century / Cheryl B. Welch -- Tocqueville's comparative perspectives / Seymour Drescher -- Tocqueville on 1789 : preconditions, precipitants, and triggers / Jon Elster -- Tocqueville's new political science / Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., and Delba Winthrop -- Tocqueville, political philosopher / Pierre Manent -- Tocqueville's Democracy in America reconsidered / James T. Schleifer -- Translating Tocqueville : the constraints of classicism / Arthur Goldhammer -- The writer engagé : Tocqueville and political rhetoric / Laurence Guellec -- The shifting puzzles of Tocqueville's The old regime and the revolution / Robert T. Gannett, Jr -- Tocqueville and civil society / Dana Villa -- Tocqueville on threats to liberty in democracies / Melvin Richter -- Tocqueville and democratic religious experience / Joshua Mitchell -- Tocqueville on fraternity and fratricide / Cheryl B. Welch -- Tocqueville and the French / Françoise Mélonio -- Tocqueville and the Americans : Democracy in America as read in nineteenth-century America / Olivier Zunz. |
| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Welch, Cheryl B.
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| ISBN |
0521840643 hardback |
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0521549965 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780521840644 |
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9780521549967 |
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