George Wilson Pierson. · Rating details · 35 ratings · 8 reviews. Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America () has become a touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity. Taking as its topic the promise and shortcomings of the democratic form of government, Tocqueville's great work is at or near the root of such political truths as the litigiousness of American 4/5. · Imagining an America of the 's, lacking roads, and having unique social structures, is quite a fascinating contrast to today's fast-paced society. Pierson's volume, written in the late 's, celebrates and chronicles Tocqueville's legendary and historic trip of years earlier, and its impact on American political thinking/5(2). Page 1 of 1 Start over. Page 1 of 1. Previous page. Tocqueville in America. George Wilson Pierson. out of 5 stars. 7. Paperback. 93 offers from $Author: George Wilson Pierson.
Tocqueville in America Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Tocqueville in America by Pierson, George Wilson, Publication date Topics Tocqueville, Alexis de, , Beaumont, Gustave de, , United States -- Description and travel -- Publisher. Buy a cheap copy of Tocqueville in America book by George Wilson Pierson. Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America () has become a touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity. Taking as its topic the promise and Free shipping over $ George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville and Beaumont in America. Oxford University Press. New York, George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America. Abridged by Dudley C. Lunt. Peter Smith. Gloucester, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America. HarperPerennial. ***** On Channing: William Henry Channing, The Life.
Tocqueville, a year-old French nobleman, traveled the breadth of Jacksonian America with his friend Gustave de Beaumont to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. In Tocqueville in America, George Wilson Pierson reconstructs - from diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts - the two Frenchmen's nine-month tour and their evolving analysis of American society. In his magisterial Tocqueville in America, George Wilson Pierson reconstructs from diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts the two Frenchmen's nine-month tour and their evolving analysis of American society. We see Tocqueville near Detroit, noting the scattered settlement patterns of the frontier and the affinity of Americans for solitude; in Boston, witnessing the jury system at work; in Philadelphia, observing the suffocating moral regimen at the new Eastern State Prison (which still stands);. George Wilson Pierson. · Rating details · 35 ratings · 8 reviews. Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America () has become a touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity. Taking as its topic the promise and shortcomings of the democratic form of government, Tocqueville's great work is at or near the root of such political truths as the litigiousness of American society, the danger of the "tyranny of the majority," th.
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