Aristocracy in America
Subtitle: from the sketch-book of a German nobleman : with excerpts from the Americans in their moral, social, and political relations
By: Francis J. Grund ; edited and with an introduction by Armin Mattes
Contributors: Mattes, Armin, editor; Grund, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1804 or 1805-1863
Series: Studies in constitutional democracy; Studies in constitutional democracy
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Columbia, Missouri
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780826221568
Subjects: Social life and customs; Politics and government; Manners and customs
Description: "Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including Aristocracy in America (1839), a fictional, satiric travel memoir written in response to Alexis de Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America. However, Grund's political work and life have never been analyzed in depth. In his introduction to this long out-of-print work, Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund's dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund's reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Comparing Aristocracy in America with Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Mattes shows how Grund's work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Biography; title: Part 2. Tocqueville and Grund on Democracy and aristocracy in America; title: Part 3. Aristocracy in America : some notes on its publication history, structure, and characteristics; title: Aristocracy in America : from the sketch-book of a German nobleman; title: Excerpts from the Americans in their moral, social, and political relations.