Democracy in America
Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique
- ISBN: 9780865977242
- Editorial: Liberty Fund
- Fecha de la edición: 2009
- Lugar de la edición: Indianapolis. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Volumen: 4
- Idiomas: Multilingüe
Ed. Eduardo Nolla; Trans. James T. Schleifer. Bilingual edition. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons. In their nine months in the U.S. they studied not just the prison system but every aspect of American life, public and private#the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville's copious notes of what he had seen and heard came the classic text De la Démocratie en Amérique, published in two large volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. The first volume focused primarily on political society; the second, on civil society. Tocqueville's account of the travels and adventures of the two Frenchmen aimed to get down the truth about America, not only to praise the new country's strengths but also to critique its shortcomings when these were all too evident to outside eyes.
Ed. Eduardo Nolla; Trans. James T. Schleifer. Bilingual edition
