Detocqueville and the French

by Françoise Mélonio

With his lifelong examination of the relation between freedom and equality in modern societies, Alexis de Tocqueville is the most widely shared icon of Franco-American political culure. Until now, his American readers have not been in a position to recognize the extent to which, even when his ostensible subject was America, Tocqueville was engaging in hotly contested debates about French society and politics. Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813917786
• ISBN13: 9780813917788
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher