Tocqueville on America after 1840 : letters and other writings / / edited and translated, with an interpretive essay and notes, by Aurelian Craiutu, Jeremy Jennings

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819417603321
• Autore: Tocqueville Alexis de <1805-1859.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-107-19639-6; 9786612390722; 1-282-39072-4; 0-511-64628-3; 0-511-84034-9; 0-511-65037-X; 0-511-53261-X; 0-511-53170-2; 0-511-53352-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 560 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Altri autori (Persone): CraiutuAurelian; JenningsJeremy <1952->
• Disciplina: 320.973
• Soggetti: United States Politics and government 1841-1845; United States Politics and government 1845-1861
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translated from the French.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-552) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Letters -- Letters: 1840-1847 -- Letters: 1848-1852 -- Letters: 1853-1856 -- Letters: 1857-1859 -- Undated and partially dated letters -- Letters between Tocqueville and his French and other correspondents -- 2: Speeches, articles, and diplomatic papers -- American in the 1840s -- America and the Revolution of 1848 -- Tocqueville's contributions to the debates on the Constitution of the Second Republic -- The Poussin Affair -- Final thoughts on the American Constitution.
• Sommario/riassunto: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America has been recognized as an indispensable starting point for understanding American politics. From the publication of the second volume in 1840 until his death in ; 1859, Tocqueville continued to monitor political developments in America and committed many of his thoughts to paper in letters to his friends in America. He also made frequent references to America in many articles and speeches. Did Tocqueville change his views on America outlined in the two volumes of Democracy in America published in 1835 and 1840? If so, which of his views changed and why? The texts translated in Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings answer these questions and offer English-speaking readers the possibility of familiarizing themselves with this unduly neglected part of Tocqueville's work. The book points out a clear shift in emphasis especially after 1852 and documents Tocqueville's growing disenchantment with America, triggered by such issues as political corruption, slavery, expansionism and the encroachment of the economic sphere upon the political.