Travels with Tocqueville beyond America
By: Jennings, Jeremy [author]
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BookPublisher: United States of America : Harvard University Press , 2023Description: 525 pages.ISBN: 9780674275607.Subject(s): Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel | Travel writers -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 944
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Summary: "Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic rule in Quebec, feared the nationalism he witnessed in Germany, and thought Algerians natural pupils of French masters. Jeremy Jennings traces Tocqueville's lesser-known travels, recovering the wider insights of one of history's great political thinkers."--
Tocqueville, Travel and Early Journeys -- Tocqueville's Journey into America -- Tocqueville and Beaumont: Canada, Prisons and Slavery -- Travels in Europe: England, Ireland, and Switzerland -- Travels in Algeria -- Italy -- Sorrento and Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire -- Germany -- America and England Revisited -- Conclusion: Cannes.
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BardBerlinLibrary Reserve Shelf/Librarian's office | 944 JEN 2023 (Browse shelf) | Checked out | On reserve shelf for China vs. Taiwan Fall 2023 | 27/11/2024 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tocqueville, Travel and Early Journeys -- Tocqueville's Journey into America -- Tocqueville and Beaumont: Canada, Prisons and Slavery -- Travels in Europe: England, Ireland, and Switzerland -- Travels in Algeria -- Italy -- Sorrento and Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire -- Germany -- America and England Revisited -- Conclusion: Cannes.
"Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic rule in Quebec, feared the nationalism he witnessed in Germany, and thought Algerians natural pupils of French masters. Jeremy Jennings traces Tocqueville's lesser-known travels, recovering the wider insights of one of history's great political thinkers."--
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