Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 4

A new 4 volume edition of Tocqueville’s classic text De la Démocratie en Amérique. The original was published in two large volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. The first volume focused primarily on political society; the second, on civil society. The online version of Liberty Fund’s edition contains only the English translation of the French critical edition. Vol. 4 contains Parts III and IV and numerous appendices.
Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique, ed. Eduardo Nolla, translated from the French by James T. Schleifer. A Bilingual French-English editions, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010). Vol. 4.
Copyright:
This bilingual edition of Tocqueville’s work contains a new English translation of the French critical edition published in 1990. The copyright to the French version is held by J. Vrin and it is not available online. The copyright to the English translation, the translator’s note, and index is held by Liberty Fund.
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- Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Translator: James T. Schleifer
- Editor: Eduardo Nolla
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- Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, 4 vols. (LF ed. 2010) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA,(1840), Volume IV
- Third Parta] Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So Called
- chapter 1a: How Mores Become Milder as Conditions Become Equal
- chapter 2a: How Democracy Makes the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easierb
- chapter 3a: Why the Americans Have So Little Susceptibility in Their Country and Show Such Susceptibility in Oursb
- chapter 4a: Consequences of the Three Preceding Chapters
- chapter 5a: How Democracy Modifies the Relationships of Servant and Master
- chapter 6a: How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Cost and Shorten the Length of Leases
- chapter 7a: Influence of Democracy on Salaries
- chapter 8a: Influence of Democracy on the Familyb
- chapter 9a: Education of Young Girls in the United Statesb
- chapter 10a: How the Young Girl Is Found Again in the Features of the Wife
- chapter 11a: How Equality of Conditions Contributes to Maintaining Good Morals in America
- chapter 12a: How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and of Womanb
- chapter 13a: How Equality Divides the Americans Naturally into a Multitude of Small Particular Societiesb
- chapter 14a: Some Reflections on American Mannersb
- chapter 15a: Of the Gravity of Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Them from Often Doing Thoughtless Thingsb
- chapter 16a: Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Anxious and More Quarrelsome Than That of the Englishb
- chapter 17a: How the Appearance of Society in the United States Is at the Very Same Time Agitated and Monotonousb
- chapter 18a: Of Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies1
- chapter 19a: Why in the United States You Find So Many Ambitious Men and So Few Great Ambitionsb
- chapter 20a: Of Positions Becoming an Industry among Certain Democratic Nations
- chapter 21a: Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rareb
- chapter 22a: Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally Desire War
- chapter 23a: Which Class, in Democratic Armies, Is the Most Warlike and the Most Revolutionary
- chapter 24a: What Makes Democratic Armies Weaker Than Other Armies While Beginning a Military Campaign and More Formidable When the War Is Prolongedb
- chapter 25a: Of Discipline in Democratic Armies
- chapter 26a: Some Considerations on War in Democratic Societies
- Fourth Parta ] Of the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exercise on Political Societyb
- chapter 1: Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions
- chapter 2a: That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in Matters of Government Naturally Favor the Concentration of Powersb
- chapter 3: That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples Are in Agreement with Their Ideas for Bringing Them to Concentrate Powera
- chapter 4a: Of Some Particular and Accidental Causes That End up Leading a Democratic People to Centralize Power or That Turn Them Away from Doing Sob
- chapter 5: That among the European Nations of Today the Sovereign Power Increases Although Sovereigns Are Less Stablea
- chapter 6: What Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Feara
- chapter 7a: Continuation of the Preceding Chapters
- chapter 8a: General View of the Subjectb
- Notes
- appendix 1: Journey to Lake Oneidaa
- appendix 2: A Fortnight in the Wildernessa
- appendix 3: Sects in Americaa
- appendix 4: Political Activity in Americaa
- appendix 5: Letter of Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Stoffels
- appendix 6: Foreword to the Twelfth Edition
- Ouvrages utilisés par Tocqueville [Works Used by Tocqueville]
- Bibliographie [Bibliography]
- Secondary Bibliography
- Endnotes