De la démocratie en Amérique

About this book

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.

Subjects

1789-1799 (révolution)

1848 (révolution de février)

american culture

american government

american society

classic literature

condiciones sociales

conditions sociales

conservatism

conservatisme

constitutional history

democracy

démocratie

demokracja

early america

états

ethnography of america

fiction

france

french literature

french revolution

gouvernement représentatif

histoire

history

history of the united states

intellectual life

liberalism

libéralisme

long now manual for civilization

moeurs et coutumes

nonfiction

política y gobierno

politics

politics and government

politics and government in the united states

politique et gouvernement

polityka i rza ·dy

social conditions

social conditions in the united states

social life and customs

sytuacja spo¿eczna

translations into english

unis

united states

united states, history, 1815-1861

united states, politics and government

united states, politics and government, 1815-1861

united states, social conditions

united states, social conditions, to 1865

vie intellectuelle