The Making of Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" / Edition 2

by James T. Schleifer

Overview

The Liberty Fund second edition of James T. Schleifer’s celebrated study of Tocqueville includes a new preface by the author and an epilogue, “The Problem of the Two Democracies.” For the first time, the evolution of a number of Tocqueville’s central themes—democracy, individualism, centralization, despotism—emerges into clear relief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865972056
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	437
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi Foreword by George W. Pierson xiii Preface to the Liberty Fund Edition xix Preface to the First Edition xxi Part I Tocqueville's Second Voyage to America, 1832–1840 1. The Writing of the First Part of the Democracy 3
2. An Expanding Task Resumed 23 Part II How to Account for America? Tocqueville Looks at Some Particular Causes Physiques 3. An Hypothesis Weighed and Rejected 49
4. Further Considerations of Environment 65
5. Was Race a Sufficient Explanation of the American Character? 82
6. The Transformation of a Continent 97 Part III Tocqueville and the Union: The Nature and Future of American Federalism 7. The Bond between the States and the Central Government 115
8. A Prophet in Error 135
9. How Large Might a Republic Be? 149 Part IV Democracy, Centralization, and Democratic Despotisms 10. Centralization and Local Liberties 161
11. Where Would Power Accumulate? 185
12. Administrative Centralization and Some Remedies 203
13. Tocqueville's Changing Visions of Democratic Despotism 221 Part V Democracy, the Individual, and the Masses 14. The Tyranny of the Majority 241
15. The Tyranny of the Majority: Some Paradoxes 265
16. Would Démocratie Usher in a New Dark Ages? 279
17. Démocratie and Egoïsme 290
18. From Egoïsme to Individualisme 305 Part VI What Tocqueville Meant by Démocratie 19. Some Meanings of Démocratie 325
20. Tocqueville's Return to America 340 Epilogue: How Many Democracies? 354
Selected Bibliography 369
Index 387

Editorial Reviews

— Edmund S. Morgan

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