Democracy in America / : translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
Tocqueville, Alexis de (, 1805-1859)
Democracy in America / : translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop - Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2000. - xciii, 722 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political philosophers Mansfield (government, Harvard U.) and Winthrop (constitutional government, Harvard U.) present a new translation only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840 aiming to restore the nuances of Tocqueville's language. Tocqueville himself was not satisfied with the 19th-century translation; the other, prepared in the late 1960s (Harper & Row), is cited in This translation is based on a recent critical French edition (Editions Gallimard, 1992). Mansfield and Winthrop provide a substantial introduction placing the work and its author in historical and philosophical context, as well as annotations elucidating references that are no longer familiar to readers.
9780226805320
00008418
Democracy----United States
United States----Politics and government
United States----Social conditions
JK216 / .T713 2000b
320.473 TOC
Democracy in America / : translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop - Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2000. - xciii, 722 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political philosophers Mansfield (government, Harvard U.) and Winthrop (constitutional government, Harvard U.) present a new translation only the third since the original two-volume work was published in 1835 and 1840 aiming to restore the nuances of Tocqueville's language. Tocqueville himself was not satisfied with the 19th-century translation; the other, prepared in the late 1960s (Harper & Row), is cited in This translation is based on a recent critical French edition (Editions Gallimard, 1992). Mansfield and Winthrop provide a substantial introduction placing the work and its author in historical and philosophical context, as well as annotations elucidating references that are no longer familiar to readers.
9780226805320
00008418
Democracy----United States
United States----Politics and government
United States----Social conditions
JK216 / .T713 2000b
320.473 TOC
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