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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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American political, economic, and security issues
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American political, economic, and security issues series.
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Intro; Contents; Preface*; Part Two: Influence of Democracy on Progress of Opinion in the United States; De Tocqueville's Preface to the Second Part; Part I: Influence of Democracy on the Action of Intellect in the United States; Chapter 1; Philosophical Method among the Americans; Chapter 2; Of the Principal Source of Belief among Democratic Nations; Chapter 3; Why the Americans Display More Readiness and More Taste for General Ideas Than Their Forefathers, the English; Chapter 4; Why the Americans Have Never Been so Eager as the French for General Ideas in Political Matters; Chapter 5 |
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Of the Manner in Which Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic TendenciesChapter 6; Of the Progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States; Chapter 7; Of the Cause of a Leaning to Pantheism amongst Democratic Nations; Chapter 8; The Principle of Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man; Chapter 9; The Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and No Taste for Science, Literature, or Art; Chapter 10; Why the Americans Are More Addicted to Practical Than to Theoretical Science |
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Chapter 11Of the Spirit in Which the Americans Cultivate the Arts; Chapter 12; Why the Americans Raise Some Monuments so Insignificant, and Others so Important; Chapter 13; Literary Characteristics of Democratic Ages; Chapter 14; The Trade of Literature; Chapter 15; The Study of Greek and Latin Literature Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities; Chapter 16; The Effect of Democracy on Language; Chapter 17; Of Some of the Sources of Poetry amongst Democratic Nations; Chapter 18; Of the Inflated Style of American Writers and Orators; Chapter 19 |
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Some Observations on the Drama amongst Democratic NationsChapter 20; Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Ages; Chapter 21; Of Parliamentary Eloquence in the United States; Part II: Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of Americans; Chapter 22; Why Democratic Nations Show a More Ardent and Enduring Love of Equality Than of Liberty; Chapter 23; Of Individualism in Democratic Countries; Chapter 24; Individualism Stronger at the Close of a Democratic Revolution Than at Other Periods; Chapter 25; That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism by Free Institutions |
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Chapter 26Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life; Chapter 27; Of the Relation between Public Associations and Newspapers; Chapter 28; Connection of Civil and Political Associations; Chapter 29; The Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Interest Rightly Understood; Chapter 30; That the Americans Apply the Principle of Interest Rightly Understood to Religious Matters; Chapter 31; Of the Taste for Physical Well-Being in America; Chapter 32; Peculiar Effects of the Love of Physical Gratifications in Democratic Ages; Chapter 33 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Democracy.
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Democracy. |
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781536152999 (electronic book) |
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1536152994 (electronic book) |
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9781536152982 |
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