Travels with Tocqueville beyond America /
Jennings, Jeremy, 1952-
Travels with Tocqueville beyond America / Jeremy Jennings. - 525 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tocqueville, Travel and Early Journeys -- Tocqueville's Journey into America -- Tocqueville and Beaumont: Canada, Prisons and Slavery -- Travels in Europe: England, Ireland, and Switzerland -- Travels in Algeria -- Italy -- Sorrento and Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire -- Germany -- America and England Revisited -- Conclusion: Cannes.
"Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic rule in Quebec, feared the nationalism he witnessed in Germany, and thought Algerians natural pupils of French masters. Jeremy Jennings traces Tocqueville's lesser-known travels, recovering the wider insights of one of history's great political thinkers."--
9780674275607 0674275608
2022028396
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020938036 Uk
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 --Travel.
Travel writers--History--19th century.
Travels with Tocqueville beyond America / Jeremy Jennings. - 525 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tocqueville, Travel and Early Journeys -- Tocqueville's Journey into America -- Tocqueville and Beaumont: Canada, Prisons and Slavery -- Travels in Europe: England, Ireland, and Switzerland -- Travels in Algeria -- Italy -- Sorrento and Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire -- Germany -- America and England Revisited -- Conclusion: Cannes.
"Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic rule in Quebec, feared the nationalism he witnessed in Germany, and thought Algerians natural pupils of French masters. Jeremy Jennings traces Tocqueville's lesser-known travels, recovering the wider insights of one of history's great political thinkers."--
9780674275607 0674275608
2022028396
GBC318206 bnb
020938036 Uk
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 --Travel.
Travel writers--History--19th century.