Harvey Mitchell, Mitchell Harvey

America After Tocqueville

Democracy Against Difference

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mitchell's study uses Tocqueville's Democracy in America to address current tensions in American democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521030243
• ISBN-10: 0521030242
• Artikelnr.: 22404201

Inhaltsangabe

References to Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Preface
Part I. Paths to Democracy in America: 1. Introduction: thinking about American democracy
2. Democracy's experiment: from inequality to equality
3. Achieving a democratic civil society
Part II. Beginnings and Democracy: 4. Beginnings and history: red and white in Tocqueville's America
5. The New England township before the revolution: Tocqueville's American pastoral
6. A second beginning: black and white in Tocqueville's America
Part III. American Democracy On Trial: 7. Difference, race, and color in America
8. Maintaining American democracy
9. The state, authority, and the people
10. Conclusion
Works cited
Index.