@article{1476811,
      recid = {1476811},
      author = {Jennings, Jeremy, },
      title = {Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America /},
      pages = {1 online resource (480 p.)},
      abstract = {A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told  through his wide-ranging travels-most of them, aside from  his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most  famous journey in the history of political thought: in  1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the  United States, spent nine months touring and observing the  political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced  the classic Democracy in America.But the United States was  just one of the many places documented by the inveterate  traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville's voyages-by  sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot-across  Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along  the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of  Tocqueville's character and sheds new light on the depth  and range of his political and cultural commentary.Despite  recurrent ill health and ever-growing political  responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or  learning. He wanted to understand what made political  communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested  on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and  economic change-the rise of democracy and the Industrial  Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire  and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly,  Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed  the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of  Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal  place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and  championed French colonial settlement in Algeria.Drawing on  correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the  recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville  Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography,  history, and political theory that fully reflects the  complex, restless mind at its center.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476811},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293120},
}