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America after Tocqueville : democracy against difference /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Harvey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859. > De la démocratie en Amérique.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
Democracy > United States.
Equality > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.