De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome premier : et augmentée d'un Avertissement et d'un Examen comparatif de la Démocratie aux États-Unis et en Suisse
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America Release date is 2009-11-21
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"De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome premier" by Alexis de Tocqueville is a political study published in 1835. After traveling through the United States in 1831 under the pretext of studying prisons, Tocqueville examines America's democratic revolution and egalitarian culture. He analyzes how religious history, government, and economic conditions shaped American society, while questioning the moral and spiritual costs of social mobility and restlessness. The work explores democracy as an effect of industrialization, offering insights that would profoundly influence Western political thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
United States -- Politics and government United States -- Social conditions Democracy -- United States