De la démocratie en Amérique

By Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville

Subjects: 1789-1799 (Révolution), Political science, Condiciones sociales, Translations into English, Politics and government, 320.973, Intellectual life, Conditions sociales, Sociologie politique, Contre-révolutions, Politics, France, Moyen âge, Religion, Nonfiction, United states, history, 1815-1861, United states, politics and government, 19th century, Libéralisme, Gouvernement représentatif, Manners and customs, Politique et gouvernement, Histoire, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Abridged Audio - Misc. Nonfiction, Verfassung, Moeurs et coutumes, Polityka i rza ·dy, Política y gobierno, Ethnography of America, American culture, Democracy, Politics and government in the United States, Démocratie, American National characteristics, 1848-1850, Conservatisme, Vie intellectuelle, United States, History of the United States, Jk216 .t713 2012, United states, politics and government, American government, Liberalism, Fiction, United states, politics and government, 1815-1861, American society, Democracia, Social life and customs, French Revolution, Social conditions in the United States, Demokratie, French literature, Conservatism, Political Science / General, 410-18e siècle (fin), Social conditions, Early America, Révolution, Political, 1848 (Révolution de février), History, Unis, États, Democracy--united states, Sytuacja spo¿eczna, Classic Literature, Demokracja, Audio Adult: Other, United states, social conditions, to 1865, Constitutional history, United states, social conditions

Description: A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist. In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.