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The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork--a classic
portrait of America's culture and people
Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" remains the most
comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life,
politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it
first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago.
This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage
includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers
students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent
translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best
translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the
1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.
This extraordinary series of observations on England and Ireland
complements de Tocqueville's masterpieces on the United States and
France in the mid-nineteenth century. These pages are perhaps the
most penetrating writings on the spirit of British politics. In
effect, as indicated by John Stuart Mill, de Tocqueville was the
Montesquieu of the nineteenth century. This is especially the case
if one thinks of the present Irish situation. His political acumen
reached into the future -which is now our present.
Tocqueville was not only an active participant in the French
Revolution of 1848, he was also a deeply perceptive observer with a
detached attitude of mind. He saw the pitfalls of the course his
country was taking more clearly than any of his contemporaries,
including Karl Marx. Recollections was first written for
self-clarification. It is both an exciting, candid,
behind-the-scenes account of what actually happened during those
tumultuous months and a remarkably shrewd analysis that has become
an accurate forecast of future societies wrestling with the dilemma
of synthesizing equality and freedom. Thus the book has a relevance
that extends beyond France, to our own country and others, a
relevance that is explored in J.P. Mayer's new introduction. Out of
print in English for several years, Recollections is presented here
in a translation based on the definitive French edition of 1964. It
captures the wit and subtlety of mind that have made this book one
of the most popular of all Tocqueville's works. Tocqueville's own
comments, which he wrote into the manuscript, including his
variants, are given, and the editors have added explanatory notes.
This extraordinary series of observations on England and Ireland
complements de Tocqueville's masterpieces on the United States and
France in the mid-nineteenth century. These pages are perhaps the
most penetrating writings on the spirit of British politics. In
effect, as indicated by John Stuart Mill, de Tocqueville was the
Montesquieu of the nineteenth century. This is especially the case
if one thinks of the present Irish situation. His political acumen
reached into the future -which is now our present.
Tocqueville was not only an active participant in the French
Revolution of 1848, he was also a deeply perceptive observer with a
detached attitude of mind. He saw the pitfalls of the course his
country was taking more clearly than any of his contemporaries,
including Karl Marx. Recollections was first written for
self-clarification. It is both an exciting, candid,
behind-the-scenes account of what actually happened during those
tumultuous months and a remarkably shrewd analysis that has become
an accurate forecast of future societies wrestling with the dilemma
of synthesizing equality and freedom. Thus the book has a relevance
that extends beyond France, to our own country and others, a
relevance that is explored in J.P. Mayer's new introduction.
Out of print in English for several years, Recollections is
presented here in a translation based on the definitive French
edition of 1964. It captures the wit and subtlety of mind that have
made this book one of the most popular of all Tocqueville's works.
Tocqueville's own comments, which he wrote into the manuscript,
including his variants, are given, and the editors have added
explanatory notes.
This book provides the first complete, literal English translation
of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition
of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its
Application to France. The work contains a critical comparison of
two competing American penitentiary disciplines known as the Auburn
and Philadelphia systems, an evaluation of whether American
penitentiaries can successfully work in France, a detailed
description of Houses of Refuge as the first juvenile detention
centers, and an argument against penal colonization. The work
provides valuable insights into understanding Tocqueville as a
statesman, as well as a comparative look at civic engagement in
early American and French penal reform movements. The Translator's
Introduction provides historical context for understanding
Tocqueville's work in French penal reform and the major themes of
the report. The book thus fills a void in Tocquevillian studies and
extrapolates the roots of American and French criminal justice
systems in the nineteenth century.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what
a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's
equality of conditions, its "democracy," The book he wrote on his
return to France, "Democracy in America," is both the best ever
written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It
remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not
only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but
also because it has something to teach everyone.
Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of "Democracy
in America" is only the third since the original two-volume work
was published in 1835 and 1840. It is a spectacular achievement,
capturing the elegance, subtlety, and profundity of Tocqueville's
original. Mansfield and Winthrop have restored the nuances of his
language, with the expressed goal "to convey Tocqueville's thought
as he held it rather than to restate it in comparable terms of
today." The result is a translation with minimal interpretation,
avoiding the problem that Tocqueville himself read in the first
translation of "Democracy in America,"
The strength of the translation is only one reason that Mansfield
and Winthrop's "Democracy in America" will become the authoritative
edition of the text. Also included is a superb and substantial
introduction placing the work and its author in the broader context
of the traditions of political philosophy and statesmanship.
Together in one volume, the new translation, the introduction, and
the translators' annotations of references no longer familiar to us
combine to offer the most readable and faithful version of
Tocqueville's masterpiece.
As we approach the160th anniversary of the publication of
"Democracy in "
"America," Mansfield and Winthrop have provided an additional
reason to celebrate.
Lavishly prepared and produced, this long-awaited new translation
will surely become the authoritative edition of Tocqueville's
profound and prescient masterwork.
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Democracy in America (Paperback)
Alexis De Tocqueville; Edited by Richard D Heffner; Afterword by Vartan Gregorian
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inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said, at the
time of its discovery by Europeans, to have form. ed one great
desert. The Indians occupied, without possess- ing it. It is by
agricultural labor that man appropriates the soil, and the early
inhabitants of North America lived by the produce of the chase.
Their implacable prejudices, their uncontrolled passions, their
vices, and still more, perhaps, their savage virtues, consigned
them to inevitable destruction. The ruin of these nations began
from the day when Europeans landed on their shores: it has
proceeded ever since, and we are now seeing the completion of it.
They seemed to have been placed by Providence-amid the riches of
the New World to enjoy them for a season, and then surrender them.
Those coasts, so admirably adapted for commerce and industry; those
wide and deep rivers; that inexhaustible valley of the
'Mississippi; the whole continent, in short, seemed prepared to be
the abode of a great nation, yet unborn. In that land the great
experiment was to be made by civilized man, of the attempt to
construct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first
time, that theories hitherto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were
to exhibit a spectacle for which the world had not been prepared by
the history of the past. CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANS
AND ITS IMPORTANCE, lit RELATION TO THEIR FUTURE CONDITION. Utility
of knowing the Origin of Nations in order to understand their
social Condition and their Laws.?America the only Country in which
the Starting-Point of a great People has been clearly
observable.?In what respects all who emigrated to British America
were similar.?In what they differed.?Remark applicable to all the
Europeans who established themselves on the shores ...
Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to
the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His
nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in
"Democracy in America" (1835?40), a landmark masterpiece of
political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes
the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores
its implications for European society in the emerging modern era.
His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences
of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty
inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in
an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material
self-interest, and the vital role of religion in American life,
while prophetically probing the deep differences between the free
and slave states. The clear, fluid, and vigorous translation by
Arthur Goldhammer is the first to fully capture Tocqueville's
achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a
profound political thinker.
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great
meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution.
One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal
event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the
problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the
modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful,
readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and it
includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and
include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by
France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French
Revolution, Francoise Melonio and the late Francois Furet, provides
a brilliant analysis of the work.
It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and an
introduction addressing Democracy in America's canonic and iconic
place in American life. "Backgrounds" includes seven letters
offering Tocqueville's impressions of his nine-and-a-half month
journey through the United States. Nine contemporary reviews, both
American and European, trace Democracy in America's varied initial
reception. Thirteen "Interpretations" gauge Tocqueville's influence
on American political thought and on democracy's legacy.
Contributors include David Riesman, Max Lerner, Robert Nisbet,
James T. Schleifer, Catherine Zuckert, Sheldon S. Wolin, Edward C.
Banfield, Daniel T. Rodgers, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz,
Henry Steele Commager, James T. Kloppenberg, and Tamara M. Teale.
A New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment. As
debates rage over the future of America and the country's
relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the
American culture from the perspective of a nineteenth century
French thinker and student of democracy. Alexis de Tocqueville's
Democracy in America, written in French in the early 19th century,
is seen as a classic of American political and cultural studies.
However, the expansive 2--volume original has never seen an
accessible version that remains true to the original text. This new
abridgement of Francis Bowen's 1864 translation keeps Tocqueville's
thought intact. All chapters have been retained and no sentences
have been divided. This volume offers a clear window into American
political history and a concise approach to this classic outsider's
perspective on the United States. A new introduction by editor John
D. Wilsey further interprets and applies Tocqueville's thought for
the modern student of American institutions, politics, religion,
and society.
This new edition of "Democracy in America "makes Tocqueville's
classic nineteenth-century study of American politics, society, and
culture available -- finally! -- in a brief and accessible version.
Designed for instructors who are eager to teach the work but
reluctant to assign all 700 plus pages, Kammen's careful abridgment
features the most well-known chapters that by scholarly consensus
are most representative of Tocqueville's thinking on a wide variety
of issues. A comprehensive introduction provides historical and
intellectual background, traces the author's journey in America,
helps students unpack the meaning behind key Tocquevillian concepts
like "individualism," "equality," and "tyranny of the majority,"
and discusses the work's reception and legacy. Newly translated,
this edition offers instructors a convenient and affordable option
for exploring this essential work with their students. Useful
pedagogic features include a chronology, questions for
consideration, a selected bibliography, illustrations, and an
index.
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Letters from America (Hardcover)
Alexis De Tocqueville; Edited by Frederick Brown; Introduction by Frederick Brown
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Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the
first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to
study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and
his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only
prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the
early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to
friends and family members in France. This book presents the first
translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that
seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's
correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on
the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers
encountered. These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait
of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself
without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover,
they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as
preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account
of the American democratic system that remains an important
reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the
letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest
to general readers, scholars, and students alike.
The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works,
including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the
original Memoir, a letter fragment considering pauperism in
Normandy, and the ‘‘Pauperism in America’’ index to the
Penitentiary Report. Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the most
important thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his thought
continues to influence contemporary political and social discourse.
In Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings, Christine Dunn
Henderson brings all of Tocqueville’s writings on poverty
together for the first time: a new translation of his original
Memoir and the first English translation of his unfinished Second
Memoir, as well as his letter considering pauperism in Normandy and
the ‘‘Pauperism in America’’ appendix to his Penitentiary
Report. By uniting these texts in a single volume, Henderson makes
possible a deeper exploration of Tocqueville’s thought as it
pertains to questions of inequality and public assistance. As
Henderson shows in her introduction to this collection, Tocqueville
provides no easy blueprint for fixing these problems, which remain
pressing today. Still, Tocqueville’s writings speak eloquently
about these issues, and his own unsuccessful struggle to find
solutions remains both a spur to creative thinking today and a
caution against attempting to find simplistic remedies. Memoirs on
Pauperism and Other Writings allows us to study his sustained
thought on pauperism, poverty assistance, governmental assistance
programs, and social inequality in a new and deeper way. The
insights in these works are important not only for what they tell
us about Tocqueville but also for how they help us to think about
contemporary social challenges. This collection will be essential
not only to students and scholars of Tocqueville’s thought,
nineteenth-century France, and political economy, but also to all
those interested in the issues of public assistance, associative
life, voluntary associations, and charities.
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of
revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de
Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods -
providing a merciless critique of the ancien regime, with its
venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms
introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution
state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once
lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in
the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he
witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the
grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French
people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions
about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.
The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of
the 1961 French edition
Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" remains the most
penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and
morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in
print nearly two hundred years ago. This edition, meticulously
edited by the distinguished de Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer, is
widely recognized as the preeminent translation.
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