Democracy in America: historical-critical edition of De la democratie en Amerique

Tocqueville - Democracy in America
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Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1 (LF ed. 2010)
Front Matter
Title page
Contents, p. viii
Translator’s Note, p. xxi
Key Terms, p. xxvi
Foreword, p. xxviii
Note on the Manuscripts, p. xlii
Acknowledgments, p. xliv
Editor’s Introduction, p. xlvii
I. Legacies, p. xlviii
II. To Understand the Revolution, p. cvi
Volume I (1835)
Part I.
Introduction, p. 3
Chapter 1. Exterior Configuration of North America, p. 33
Chapter 2. Of the Point of Departure and Its Importance for the Future of the Anglo-Americans, p. 45
Chapter 3. Social State of the Anglo-Americans, p. 74
Chapter 4. Of the Principle of the Sovereignty of the People in America, p. 91
Chapter 5. Necessity of Studying What Happens in the Individual States before Speaking about the Government of the Union, p. 98
Chapter 6. Of the Judicial Power in the United States and Its Action on Political Society, p. 167
Chapter 7. Of Political Jurisdiction in the United States, p. 179
Chapter 8. Of the Federal Constitution, p. 186
End of the Volume, p. 276
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Part II, p. 277
Chapter 1. How It Can Be Strictly Said That in the United States It Is the People Who Govern, p. 278
Chapter 2. Of Parties in the United States, p. 279
Chapter 3. Of Freedom of the Press in the United States, p. 289
Chapter 4. Of Political Association in the United States, p. 302
Chapter 5. Of the Government of Democracy in America, p. 313
Chapter 6. What Are the Real Advantages That American Society Gains from the Government of Democracy?, p. 375
Chapter 7. Of the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Effects, p. 402
Chapter 8. Of What Tempers Tyranny of the Majority in the United States, p. 427
Chapter 9. Of the Principal Causes That Tend to Maintain the Democratic Republic in the United States, p. 451
Chapter 10. Some Considerations on the Present State and Probable Future of the Three Races That Inhabit the Territory of the United States, p. 515
Conclusion, p. 649
Notes, p. 658
End of the Volume, p. 687
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Volume 2
Foreword, p. 690
Part I: Influence of Democracy on the Intellectual Movement in the United States 696
Chapter 1: Of the Philosophical Method of the Americans 697
Chapter 2: Of the Principal Source of Beliefs among Democratic Peoples 711
Chapter 3: Why the Americans Show More Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas than Their Fathers the English 726
Chapter 4: Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French about General Ideas in Political Matters 737
Chapter 5: How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instincts 742
Chapter 6: Of the Progress of Catholicism in the United States 754
Chapter 7: What Makes the Minds of Democratic Peoples Incline toward Pantheism 757
Chapter 8: How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man 759
Chapter 9: How the Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Cannot Have Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Arts 763
Chapter 10: Why the Americans Are More Attached to the Application of the Sciences than to the Theory 775
Chapter 11: In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts 788
Chapter 12: Why Americans Erect Such Small and Such Large Monuments at the Same Time 796
Chapter 13: Literary Physiognomy of Democratic Centuries 800
Chapter 14: Of the Literary Industry 813
Chapter 15: Why the Study of Greek and Latin Literature Is Particularly Useful in Democratic Societies 815
Chapter 16: How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language 818
Chapter 17: Of Some Sources of Poetry among Democratic Nations 830
Chapter 18: Why American Writers and Orators Are Often Bombastic 843
Chapter 19: Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples 845
Chapter 20: Of Some Tendencies Particular to Historians in Democratic Centuries 853
Chapter 21: Of Parliamentary Eloquence in the United States 861
Part II: Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americans
Chapter 1: Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Enduring Love for Equality than for Liberty 872
Chapter 2: Of Individualism in Democratic Countries 881
Chapter 3: How Individualism Is Greater at the End of a Democratic Revolution than at Another Time 885
Chapter 4: How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutions 887
Chapter 5: Of the Use That Americans Make of Association in Civil Life 895
Chapter 6: Of the Relation between Associations and Newspapers 905
Chapter 7: Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associations 911
Chapter 8: How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Interest Well Understood 918
Chapter 9: How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religion 926
Chapter 10: Of the Taste for MaterialWell-Being in America 930
Chapter 11: Of the Particular Effects Produced by the Love of Material Enjoyments in Democratic Centuries 935
Chapter 12: Why Certain Americans Exhibit So Excited a Spiritualism 939
Chapter 13: Why the Americans Appear So Restless Amid Their Well-Being 942
Chapter 14: How the Taste for Material Enjoyment Is United, among the Americans, with the Love of Liberty and Concern for Public Affairs 948
Chapter 15: How from Time to Time Religious Beliefs Divert the Soul of the Americans toward Non-material Enjoyments 954
Chapter 16: How the Excessive Love of Well-Being Can Harm Well-Being 963
Chapter 17: How, in Times of Equality and Doubt, It Is Important to Push Back the Goal of Human Actions 965
Chapter 18: Why, among the Americans, All Honest Professions Are Considered Honorable 969
Chapter 19: What Makes Nearly All Americans Tend toward Industrial Professions 972
Chapter 20: How Aristocracy Could Emerge from Industry 980
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Part III: Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So Called
Chapter 1: How Mores Become Milder as Conditions Become Equal 987
Chapter 2: How Democracy Makes the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easier 995
Chapter 3: Why the Americans Have So Little Susceptibility in Their Country and Show Such Susceptibility in Ours 1000
Chapter 4: Consequences of the Three Preceding Chapters 1005
Chapter 5: How Democracy Modifies the Relationships of Servant and Master 1007
Chapter 6: How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Cost and Shorten the Length of Leases 1020
Chapter 7: Influence of Democracy on Salaries 1025
Chapter 8: Influence of Democracy on the Family 1031
Chapter 9: Education of Young Girls in the United States 1041
Chapter 10: How the Young Girl Is Found Again in the Features of the Wife 1048
Chapter 11: How Equality of Conditions Contributes to Maintaining Good Morals in America 1052
Chapter 12: How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and of Woman 1062
Chapter 13: How Equality Divides the Americans Naturally into a Multitude of Small Particular Societies 1068
Chapter 14: Some Reflections on American Manners 1071
Chapter 15: Of the Gravity of Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Them from Often Doing Thoughtless Things 1080
Chapter 16: Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Anxious and More Quarrelsome than That of the English 1085
Chapter 17: How the Appearance of Society in the United States Is at the Very Same Time Agitated and Monotonous 1089
Chapter 18: Of Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies 1093
Chapter 19: Why in the United States You Find So Many Ambitious Men and So Few Great Ambitions 1116
Chapter 20: Of Positions Becoming an Industry among Certain Democratic Nations 1129
Chapter 21: Why Great RevolutionsWill Become Rare 1133
Chapter 22: Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally Desire War 1153
Chapter 23: Which Class, in Democratic Armies, Is the Most Warlike and the Most Revolutionary 1165
Chapter 24: What Makes Democratic Armies Weaker than Other Armies while Beginning a Military Campaign and More Formidable When the War Is Prolonged 1170
Chapter 25: Of Discipline in Democratic Armies 1176
Chapter 26: Some Considerations on War in Democratic Societies 1178
Part IV: Of the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exercise on Political Society
Chapter 1: Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions 1191
Chapter 2: That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in Matters of Government Naturally Favor the Concentration of Powers 1194
Chapter 3: That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples Are in Agreement with Their Ideas for Bringing Them to Concentrate Power 1200
Chapter 4: Of Some Particular and Accidental Causes That End Up Leading a Democratic People to Centralize Power or That Turn Them Away from Doing So 1206
Chapter 5: That among the European Nations of Today the Sovereign Power Increases although Sovereigns Are Less Stable 1221
Chapter 6: What Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear 1245
Chapter 7: Continuation of the Preceding Chapters 1262
Chapter 8: General View of the Subject 1278
Notes 1286
Appendixes 1295
Appendix 1: Journey to Lake Oneida 1295
Appendix 2: A Fortnight in the Wilderness 1303
Appendix 3: Sects in America 1360
Appendix 4: Political Activity in America 1365
Appendix 5: Letter of Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Stoffels 1368
Works Used by Tocqueville 1376
Bibliography 1396
Index 1499
End of the Volume, p. 1574