Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America

Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 545
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ISBN-10 : 9780674275607
ISBN-13 : 0674275608
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Book Synopsis Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America by : Jeremy Jennings

Download or read book Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America written by Jeremy Jennings and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the nationalism he saw in Germany, and controversially defended French colonization of Algeria. Jeremy Jennings traces Tocqueville's lesser-known travels, recovering the wider insights of one of history's great political thinkers.


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