Democracy in America Vol. II by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)

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Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses as seen from a European point of view. It is also regarded as a pioneering work of sociology. (Summary based on Wikipedia)

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De Tocqueville's Preface To Vol II

Dec 31 1969 5 mins  

Part I: De Tocqueville's Preface To The Second Part: part1,chapter1: Philosophical Method Among the Americans; p1c02: Of The Principal Source Of Belief Among Democratic Nations

Dec 31 1969 23 mins  

p1c03: Why The Americans Display More Readiness And More Taste For General Ideas Than Their Forefathers, The English; 1.04: Why The Americans Have Never Been So Eager As The French ForGeneral Ideas In Political Matters

Dec 31 1969 15 mins  

1.05: Of The Manner In Which Religion In The United States Avails Itself Of Democratic Tendencies; 1.06: Of The Progress Of Roman Catholicism In The United States

Dec 31 1969 24 mins  

1.07: Of The Cause Of A Leaning To Pantheism Amongst Democratic Nations; 1.08: The Principle of Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man

Dec 31 1969 8 mins  

1.09: The Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and No Taste for Science, Literature, or Art; 1.10: Why the Americans Are More Addicted to Practical Than to Theoretical Science

Dec 31 1969 31 mins  

1.11: The Spirit in Which the Americans Cultivate the Arts; 1.12: Why the Americans Raise Some Monuments So Insignificant, and Others So Important

Dec 31 1969 15 mins  

1.13: Literary Characteristics of Democratic Ages; 1.14: The Trade of Literature

Dec 31 1969 14 mins  

1.15: The Study of Greek and Latin Literature Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities; 1.16: The Effect of Democracy on Language

Dec 31 1969 22 mins  

1.17: Some of the Sources of Poetry among Democratic Nations; 1.18: Of the Inflated Style of American Writers and Orators

Dec 31 1969 27 mins