Harvey Mitchell

America after Tocqueville

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780521812467
• ISBN-10: 0521812461
• Artikelnr.: 24253022

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.