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Tocqueville and the two democracies / Jean-Claude Lamberti ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Van Pelt Library JC229.T8 L35313 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamberti, Jean-Claude.
- Standardized Title:
- Tocqueville et les deux démocraties. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de.
- Democracy.
- France--Politics and government.
- France.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- Why did the French Revolution lead to the crimes of the Terror, whereas the American Revolution brought forth a liberal democracy? Alexis de Tocqueville spent a lifetime trying to understand the paradox.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Tocqueville et les deux démocraties.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [245]-251.
- ISBN:
- 0674894359
- OCLC:
- 18070211
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