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Item Details
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DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
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| By: |
Alexis de Tocqueville, Stephen D. Grant, Sanford Kessler |
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Hardback |
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£34.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0872204952 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780872204959 |
| Publisher: |
HACKETT PUBLISHING CO, INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2000 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
This new abridged translation of Democracy in America reflects the rich Tocqueville scholarship of the past forty years, and restores chapters central to Tocqueville's analysis absent from previous abridgmentsincluding his discussions of enlightened self-interest and the public's influence on ethical standards. Judicious notes and a thoughtful Introduction offer aids to the understanding of a masterpiece of nineteenth-century social thought that continues in our own day to illuminate debates about the roles of liberty and equality in American life. |
| Synopsis: |
This new abridged translation of Democracy in America reflects the rich Tocqueville scholarship of the past forty years, and restores chapters central to Tocqueville's analysis absent from previous abridgmentsincluding his discussions of enlightened self-interest and the public's influence on ethical standards. Judicious notes and a thoughtful Introduction offer aids to the understanding of a masterpiece of nineteenth-century social thought that continues in our own day to illuminate debates about the roles of liberty and equality in American life. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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