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The Cambridge companion to Tocqueville / edited by Cheryl B. Welch. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xxvii, 428 p. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge companions to philosophy .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-412) and index.

Introduction : Tocqueville in the twenty-first century / Cheryl B. Welch -- Tocqueville's comparative perspectives / Seymour Drescher -- Tocqueville on 1789 : preconditions, percipitants, and triggers / Jon Elster -- Tocqueville's new political science / Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. and Delba Winthrop -- Tocqueville, political philosopher / Pierre Manent -- Tocqueville's Democracy in America reconsidered / James T. Schleifer -- Translating Tocqueville : the constraints of classicism / Arthur Goldhammer -- The writer engagâe : Tocqueville and political rhetoric / Laurence Guellec -- The shifting puzzles of Tocqueville's The old regime and the revolution / Robert T. Gannett, Jr -- Tocqueville and civil society / Dana Villa -- Tocqueville on threats to liberty in democracies / Melvin Richter -- Tocqueville on democratic religious experience / Joshua Mitchell -- Tocqueville on fraternity and fratricide / Cheryl B. Welch -- Tocqueville and the French / Francoise Mâelonio -- Tocqueville and the Americans : Democracy in America as read in nineteenth century America / Olivier Zunz.

ISBN: 9780521840644 (hardback) 0521840643 (hardback) 9780521549967 (pbk.) 0521549965 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2005024955

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA655705 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013494770 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science--Philosophy.
Idees politiques--Philosophie.

LC Class. No.: JC 229 / C178 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 320/.092