Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View from Albion

by Frank Prochaska

Book Overview

Eminent Victorians on American Democracy surveys a wide range of British opinion on the United States in the nineteenth century and highlights the views of John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Sir Henry Maine, and James Bryce, who wrote extensively on American government and society. America was significant to them not only because it was the world's most advanced democracy, but also because it was a political experiment that was seen to anticipate the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199640610
• ISBN13: 9780199640614
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"