Alexis De Tocqueville and American Intellectuals - From His Times to Ours

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Mancini is professor and chair of the American Studies department at Saint Louis University. His previous books include One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 and Alexis de Tocqueville. Klappentext Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals tells the surprising story of Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals tells the surprising story of Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Reception and Renown Chapter 2: At Old Mrs. Otis's Chapter 3: The American Old Regime Chapter 4: The Myth of Oblivion Chapter 5: Enduring Sage Chapter 6: A Cottage Industry Chapter 7: Lumpers and Splitters

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Mancini, Matthew J. Mancini
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2006
• EAN: 9780742523449
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2344-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: American Intellectual Culture; American Intellectual Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education