by
Jaume, Lucien.
Call Number
320.092 23
Publication Date
2013
Summary
Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book, written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly concerned with France. ""America, "" Jaume says, ""was merely a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of France."" For Tocqueville, in s.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.8197
View Other Search Results
by
Roper, Brian S. (Brian Staples), 1961-
Call Number
321.80
Publication Date
2013
Summary
Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy using a Marxist theoretical framework. He traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy in Europe and North America, through to the global spread of democracy during the past century.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
0.0707
View Other Search Results
Limit Search Results
Narrowed by: