America after Tocqueville
Subtitle: Democracy against Difference
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521812467
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Tocqueville, Alexis de,; History; De la dÃ¢emocratie en AmÃ¢erique; United States - General; History - U.S.; Politics and government; History: American; USA; Political Process - General; History / United States / General; De la democratie en Amerique; United States; 1805-1859; 1805-1859.; De la dâemocratie en Amâerique; Democracy; Equality
First sentence: The United States presents the most pressing example of how democracy and modernity were and continue to be, in their most vital aspects, identified with one another.
Description: "America After Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's earlier book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996), Mitchell's new study draws on Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own time." "Many of the difficulties we have in grasping Tocqueville's fullest intentions in his seminal work lie in his marginalization of problems he raised in "The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States," the last chapter that concludes the first volume of Democracy in America."--Jacket.