America after Tocqueville : democracy against difference

The Resource America after Tocqueville : democracy against difference
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America after Tocqueville : democracy against difference
Title remainder
democracy against difference
Statement of responsibility
Harvey Mitchell
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996). This study draws on 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 analyses 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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Cataloging source
UkCbUP
Dewey number
320.973
Index
index present
LC call number
JK216.T7193
LC item number
M58 2002
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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