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ISBN:
9780674293120
Content:
A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels—most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America.But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville’s voyages—by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot—across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville’s character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary.Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change—the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed French colonial settlement in Algeria.Drawing on correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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CHAPTER ONE Embarking
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CHAPTER TWO An American Journey
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CHAPTER THREE Prisons, Slavery, and a Trip to Canada
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CHAPTER FOUR England, Ireland, and Switzerland
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CHAPTER FIVE Algeria
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CHAPTER SIX Italy
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CHAPTER SEVEN Sorrento and Saint-Cyr- sur- Loire
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CHAPTER EIGHT Germany
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CHAPTER NINE America and England Revisited
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Conclusion Cannes
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Appendix: Reading Tocqueville
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Notes
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Acknowledgements
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674275607
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jennings, Jeremy, 1952 - Travels with Tocqueville beyond America Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780674275607
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859
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Reise
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Reisebericht
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Geschichte 1826-1859
DOI:
10.4159/9780674293120
