What is the enduring significance of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America?Īristocracy (n): government by the highest class, especially a hereditary nobility.

What motivated the visit of Tocqueville and Beaumont to America?.

Tocqueville wrote an enduring analysis allowing Americans to better understand themselves. Both men ultimately wrote successful books about their time in the United States, but it was Tocqueville’s Democracy in America that became one of the most significant political texts ever written about the United States.

In 1831, they embarked on their nine-month, seven-thousand–mile tour of the United States east of the Mississippi, during which they studied not just the prisons but everything else about life in America.

However, their larger goal was to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the political culture in the United States with an eye to influencing post-revolutionary France.

prison system to enlighten reform of French prisons. They decided to make a lengthy visit to the United States, where their official objective would be study of the U.S. In 1830, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were both low-ranking members of the Versailles court of law who believed the era of monarchy and aristocracy was coming to an end. This Primary Source can be used to introduce students to an outsider’s perspective on the United States during the Jacksonian era.With an original preface and notes, by John C. Complete Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back.

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