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UNINA9910813195503321 |
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Mitchell Harvey |
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Titolo |
America after Tocqueville : democracy against difference / / Harvey Mitchell [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-12553-7 |
0-521-03024-2 |
1-280-15962-6 |
0-511-12038-9 |
0-511-33007-3 |
0-511-51173-6 |
0-511-04532-8 |
0-511-14771-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democracy - United States |
Equality - United States |
United States Politics and government |
United States Social conditions To 1865 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-309) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: thinking about American democracy -- Democracy's experiment: from inequality to equality -- Achieving a democratic civil society -- Beginnings and history: red and white in Tocqueville's America -- The New England township before the revolution: Tocqueville's American pastoral -- A second beginning: black and white in Tocqueville's America -- Difference, race, and color in America -- Maintaining American democracy -- The state, authority, and the people. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996). This study draws on Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the |
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