LEADER 03469nam 22006612 450 001 9910813195503321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-12553-7 010 $a0-521-03024-2 010 $a1-280-15962-6 010 $a0-511-12038-9 010 $a0-511-33007-3 010 $a0-511-51173-6 010 $a0-511-04532-8 010 $a0-511-14771-6 035 $a(CKB)111082128285922 035 $a(EBL)202224 035 $a(OCoLC)52612700 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101842 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131471 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101842 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043980 035 $a(PQKB)11183227 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511511738 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202224 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10022040 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15962 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128285922 100 $a20090312d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerica after Tocqueville $edemocracy against difference /$fHarvey Mitchell$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-81246-1 311 $a0-511-02051-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295-309) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aAmerica 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 United States in our own time. Three aspects of Americanism inform Harvey Mitchell's book, and cannot be separated from Tocqueville's consideration of the three races. First, he addresses tensions in the United States between ideas of equality and a political system that tries to keep it within bounds. He turns to the relationship between this system and the dynamics of American capitalism. and he analyses the criteria for inclusion and exclusion in American life. Overall, he asks if Americans have surrendered to what Tocqueville called the materialization of life; if that compromise means their abandonment of their original spiritual quest; and, if they are on the way to a radical alienation from politics. 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States 606 $aEquality$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aEquality 676 $a320.973 700 $aMitchell$b Harvey$0485313 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813195503321 996 $aAmerica after Tocqueville$94087170 997 $aUNINA