Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reform

By - Drolet, Michael, 1962-

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2003

ISBN 10 - 1403915679

ISBN 13 - 9781403915672

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - United States

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 320.973 DRO

Book Information

Call no: 320.973 DRO

Physical Description: xii, 310 pages ; 22 cm

Note: includes index

Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the Revolution. Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and the plight of abandoned children. This study explores the intellectual and social context of these neglected yet startlingly innovative writings and it reveals how they proved central to the composition of those works for which Tocqueville is best known.

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