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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300571103321

Autore

Hess Andreas

Titolo

Tocqueville and Beaumont : Aristocratic Liberalism in Democratic Times / / by Andreas Hess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-69667-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 153 p.)

Disciplina

300.1

Soggetti

Social sciences—Philosophy

Sociology

Historical sociology

Political sociology

Social Theory

Sociological Theory

Historical Sociology

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: A Two-Man Research Machine  -- 2. The Birth Pangs of American Democracy  -- 3. In Search of New Liberal Politics: Reconciling Equality with Liberty  -- 4. Republican by Necessity: The Revolution of 1848 and Beyond  -- 5. What Remains?

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context. It accompanies the two friends to the US and analyses the fruitful encounter between the New and the Old World that was the result of that journey, particularly in relation to emerging Atlantic democracies and revolutions. This includes the hopes but also the problems and contradictions that they have come to represent. The book also follows Tocqueville and Beaumont to England, Ireland, and Algeria. It discusses their political careers and their



engagement in the abolitionist movement, their fight for liberal social and political reform, as well as their futile attempt to rationalize French colonization in Algeria.