Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy

Herausgeber: Atanassow, Ewa; Boyd, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781107009639
• ISBN-10: 1107009634
• Artikelnr.: 37601637

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Short title key to works cited; Introduction: Tocqueville
and the frontiers of democracy Ewa Atanassow and Richard Boyd; Part I. The
Meaning of Democracy and the Democratic Revolution: 1. Democracy and
revolution in Tocqueville: the frontiers of democracy Nestor Capdevila; 2.
The frontier between democracy and aristocracy Ran Halevi; 3. Tocqueville's
Burke, or story as history Ralph Lerner; Part II. Democratization in a
Non-Western Context: 4. Tocqueville and religion: beyond the frontier of
Christendom Alan Kahan; 5. Deliberating democratization with Tocqueville:
the case of East Asia Cheryl Welch; 6. Tocquevillean thoughts on higher
education in the Middle East Joshua Mitchell; Part III. Challenges of
Globalization: Democracy, Markets, and Nationhood: 7. Tocqueville and the
unsettled global village Susan McWilliams; 8. Nationhood: democracy's
frontier? Ewa Atanassow; 9. Commerce, glory, and empire: Montesquieu's
legacy Celine Spector; Part IV. Democracy, Imperialism, and Foreign Policy:
10. The surprising M. Tocqueville: necessity, foreign policy, and civic
virtue David Clinton; 11. Democracy and domination: empire, slavery, and
democratic corruption in Tocqueville's thought Jennifer Pitts; 12.
Tocqueville and the Napoleonic legend Richard Boyd; Part V. Democracy's Old
and New Frontiers: 13. Tocqueville, the problem of equality, and John
Ford's Stagecoach Robert Pippin; 14. The poetry of democracy Paul Berman;
15. Tocqueville and the local frontiers of democracy Robert T. Gannett, Jr;
Epilogue: new frontiers, old dilemmas Richard Boyd; List of contributors;
Bibliography; Index.