Princeton Readings in Political Thought by Mitchell Cohen

Author:Mitchell Cohen [Cohen, Mitchell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691159973
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) published the two volumes of Democracy in America in 1835 and 1840, not long after he had returned to his native France from a visit to the United States. He was an aristocrat who served in the French Chamber of Deputies and briefly as foreign minister. His interpretation of the French Revolution, The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), is also a classic. He went to the United States to study the prison system but became preoccupied with American politics in comparison to his European experiences. He believed that America embodied the era of democratic revolutions in which he lived and which was the wave of the future. He emphasized “the general equality of conditions” in America that affected all aspects of politics, economics, customs, and opinions.

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