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Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
This is a free, online textbook that takes "up the task of re-contextualizing Alexis de Tocqueville's famous political and cultural analysis of American democracy. Our objective is, over time, to return that book -- arguably still one of the most influential works in political thought -- to its origins, to the America of 1831-32 . For it was on that very specific ground and at that very specific historical moment that Tocqueville stood. What he...
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Textbook
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- February 23, 2010
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- June 1, 2017
- Author:
- University of Virginia
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Cathy Swift
