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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Christine Dunn Henderson -- Part I. Tocqueville as voyager -- Hidden from view : Tocqueville's secrets / Eduardo Nolla -- Tocqueville's voyages : to and from America? / S.J.D. Green -- Democratic dangers, democratic remedies, and the democratic character / James T. Schleifer -- Tocqueville's journey into America / Jeremy Jennings -- Alexis de Tocqueville and the two-founding thesis / James W. Ceaser -- Tocqueville's "new political science" / Catherine H. Zuckert -- Democratic grandeur : how Tocqueville constructed his new moral science in America / Alan S. Kahan -- Intimations of philosophy in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Harvey C. Mansfield -- An undertow of race prejudice in the current of democratic transformation : Tocqueville on the "three races" of North America / Barbara Allen -- Tocqueville's reflections on a democratic paradox / Jean-Louis Benoît -- Out of Africa : Tocqueville's imperial voyages / Cheryl B. Welch -- Part II. Tocquevillian voyages -- Tocqueville's voyage of discovery from Sicily to America / Filippo Sabetti -- Tocqueville, Argentina, and the search for a point of departure / Enrique Aguilar -- Tocqueville and Eastern Europe / Aurelian Craiutu -- Tocqueville and "Democracy in Japan" / Reiji Matsumoto. |
| Summary |
Edited and with an Introduction by Christine Dunn Henderson 6 x 9. Approx. 560 pages. Introduction, note on the contributors, index. Tocqueville's Voyages is a collection of newly written essays by some of the most well-known Tocquevillian scholars today. The essays in the first part of the volume explore the development of Tocqueville's thought, his intellectual voyage, during his trip to America and while writing Democracy in America. The second part of the book focuses on the dissemination of Tocqueville's ideas beyond the Franco-American context of 1835-1840 in places such as Argentina, J. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Influence.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. |
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel.
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Travel. |
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Democracy -- History -- 19th century.
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Democracy. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels -- History -- 19th century.
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Voyages and travels. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Henderson, Christine Dunn, 1967-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tocqueville's voyages. Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2014 (DLC) 2014022561 (OCoLC)889426114 |
| ISBN |
9781614879121 (electronic book) |
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1614879125 (electronic book) |
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9780865978706 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0865978700 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780865976214 |
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