Alexis de Tocqueville

Broschiertes Buch

Democracy in America and Two Essays on America

Introduction ans Notes by Isaac Kramnick

Herausgegeben: Kramnick, Isaac;Übersetzung: Bevan, Gerald

Beschreibung

In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him nine months and cover 7000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America.
Tocqueville`s study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.

Autor

Alexis Tocqueville

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: PENGUIN
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 42787
• Seitenzahl: 992
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780140447606
• ISBN-10: 0140447601
• Artikelnr.: 11620773

Rezensionen

"No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer." -The New York Times

"The Bradley edition of Tocqueville's classic is the best now available in English." -Charles A. Beard

"Professor Bradley's edition should remain the standard one for our time." -F. O. Matthiessen

With an Introduction by Alan Ryan