Title:
Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited by Eduardo Nolla ; translated from the French by James T. Schleifer.
Author:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Nolla, Eduardo.
Schleifer, James T., 1942-
Publication Information:
Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, [2012]
Call Number:
JK216 .T713 2012 V.1
Abstract:
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American prisons on behalf of the French government. They investigated not just the prison system but indeed every aspect of American public and private life - the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all the social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville's copious notes came Democracy in America. This English-only edition of Democracy in America features Eduardo Nolla's incisive notes to James Schleifer's English translation of the French text, with an extensive selection of early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials: "This new Democracy is not only the one that Tocqueville presented to the reader of 1835, then to the reader of 1840. . . the reader will see how Tocqueville proceeded with the elaboration of the main ideas of his book."
Edition:
English ed.
ISBN:
9780865978409
9780865978386
9780865978393
Physical Description:
2 volumes (clix, 1502 pages) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Vol. I: -- Part I: -- Ch. 1: Exterior Configuration of North American -- Ch. 2: Of the point of Departure and its Importance for the Future of the Anglo-Americans -- Ch. 3: Social State of the Anglo-Americans -- Ch. 4: Of the Principle of the Sovereignty of the People in America -- Ch. 5: Necessity of Studying What Happens in the Individual States before Speaking about the Government of the Union -- Ch. 6: Of the Judicial Power in the United States and its Action on Political Society -- Ch. 7: Of Political Jurisdiction in the United Sates -- Ch. 8: Of the Federal Constitution -- Part II -- Ch. 1: How It Can Be Strictly Said That in the United Sates it Is the People Who Govern -- Ch. 2: Of Parties in the United Sates -- Ch. 3: Of Freedom of the Press in the United Sates -- Ch. 4: Of Political Association in the United States -- Ch. 5: Of the Government of Democracy in America -- Ch. 6: What Are the Real Advantages That American Society Gain from the Government of Democracy? -- Ch. 7: Of the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United Sates and its Effects -- Ch. 8: Of What Tempers Tyranny of the Majority in the United States -- Ch. 9: Of the Principal Causes That Tend to Maintain the Democratic Republic in the United States -- Ch. 10: Some Considerations on the Present State and Probable Future of the Three Races That Inhabit the Territory of the United States -- Vol. II -- Part I: Influence of Democracy on the Intellectual Movement in the United States -- Part II: Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americans -- Part III: Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So Called -- Part IV: Of the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exercise on Political Society.
Uniform Title:
De la démocratie en Amérique. English
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