America Through European Eyes - British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

About the author

Aurelian Craiutu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Liberalism Under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires (2003) and editor/translator of Tocqueville on America After 1840 (2009).Jeffrey C. Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Democracy in Dark Times (1998).

Summary

A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Aurelian Craiutu
• Assisted by: Aurelian Craiutu (Editor), Aurelian (Indiana University) Craiutu (Editor), Craiutu Aurelian (Editor), Jeffrey C. Isaac (Editor), Jeffrey C. (Indiana University) Isaac (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2012
• EAN: 9780271033914
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03391-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Politics and government, History of the Americas