Friend or foe? British receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885
@article{Bonin2021FriendOF, title={Friend or foe? British receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885}, author={Hugo Bonin}, journal={British Politics}, year={2021}, pages={1-19} }
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835, 1840) strongly influenced Western understandings of democracy. The dissemination and reception of Tocqueville’s ideas had been studied in various countries, but not in Britain. While some scholars did notice the British influence on Tocqueville, few have asked the reverse question: how did he shape the British political lexicon, especially when it came to the issue of ‘democracy’? Drawing on conceptual history and reception studies, this…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 144 REFERENCES
Democracy in America : historical-critical edition of "De la démocratie en Amérique"
- History
- 2010
Text in English & French. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons. In their nine…
Reading Tocqueville behind the Veil: African American Receptions of Democracy in America, 1835–1900
- HistoryAmerican Political Thought
- 2018
Tocqueville’s views on race and race relations as espoused in Democracy in America have received considerable scholarly attention over the past several decades. This article examines the reception of…
Tocqueville in America
- History
- 1969
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) has become a touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity. Taking as its topic the promise and shortcomings of the democratic form…
Democracy before Tocqueville: Michel Chevalier's America
- HistoryThe Review of Politics
- 2006
This article explores the writings of Michel Chevalier, a contemporary of Alexis de Tocqueville, on America. Despite widespread praise, Chevalier's text Lettres sur l'Amérique du Nord has been…
Democratic Struggle or National Uprising? The Canadian Rebellions in British Political Thought, 1835–1840
- History, Political Science
- 2020
ABSTRACT This article argues that the role of the 1837–38 Canadian rebellions in early nineteenth-century British political thought has been under-appreciated. It shows that they were the occasion of…
The American Commonwealth
- History
- 1973
In "Democracy in America" (1835), the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville viewed the fledgling United States through the lens of political theory. A half-century later, the Englishman James Bryce…
The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America
- History
- 2012
One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, "Democracy in America" continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation…
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
- History
- 2010
No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and…
Between panacea and poison: “democracy” in British socialist thought, 1881–1891
- Political ScienceIntellectual History Review
- 2020
ABSTRACT The history of democracy is increasingly understood as not only the recovery of its practices and conceptualisations but also of its signifiers. In order to grasp the transition of the word…
Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the Modern Debate on the Enlightenment
- History
- 2018
Abstract This article discusses Tocqueville’s and Mill’s views of the cultural progress of indigenous colonial societies in the context of the current debate about the Enlightenment. The analysis of…