America after Tocqueville : Democracy Against Difference
by Mitchell, Harvey
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- ISBN 10
- 0521812461
- ISBN 13
- 9780521812467
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Synopsis
America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996). His new study uses Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own time. Three aspects of Americanism inform Harvey Mitchell's book, and cannot be separated from Tocqueville's consideration of the three races. First, he addresses tensions in the United States between ideas of equality and a political system that tries to keep it within bounds. He turns to the relationship between this system and the dynamics of American capitalism. and he analyzes the criteria for inclusion and exclusion in American life. Overall, he asks if Americans have surrendered to what Tocqueville called the materialization of life; if that compromise means their abandonment of their original spiritual quest; and, if they are on the way to a radical alienation from politics.
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- Better World Books (US)
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- 623124-6
- Title
- America after Tocqueville : Democracy Against Difference
- Author
- Mitchell, Harvey
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0521812461
- ISBN 13
- 9780521812467
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- This edition first published
- September 16, 2002
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