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Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization

By Seymour Drescher

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
1968
ISBN
0822984040, 9780822984047
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
78 MB (81526055 bytes)
Pages
314\317
Time added
2021-06-30 09:18:36

Description

Alexis de Tocqueville has been extensively chronicled as a pioneer sociologist and political philosopher of democracy during the early nineteenth century. However, his writings on the problems of social and economic transitions to an industrial society have been largely overlooked. In this book, Seymour Drescher presents a thorough analysis of Tocqueville's concern for the lower classes of society, viewing his thoughts on slavery, poverty, criminality, and working class conditions, and their place in an evolving egalitarian society.

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