O SELECȚIE URIAȘĂ
Peste 4 milioane de cărți în engleză la prețuri avantajoase.
ISBN | 9780674275607 |
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Autor | Jennings Jeremy |
Editura | Harvard Univ Pr |
Limba | english |
Tip copertă | Pevná vazba |
Anul publicării | 2023 |
Număr de pagini | 544 |
A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels--most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.
It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America. But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville's voyages--by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot--across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville's character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary. Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change--the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec