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Fifteen Days in the Wilderness
Alexis de Tocqueville is best known for having written a brilliant study of the emerging American democracy, its politics and form of government, its economics, demographics, and attitudes, in short almost everything that could be known about this new country and the character of the new man, the "American." His book is, of course, Democracy in America. His insights were the result of a nine-month trip that he made to the United States with a friend in 1831. ''Fifteen Days in the Wilderness'' is the journal that Tocqueville kept of a trek the two men took into the lower Michigan peninsula, a side-trip that he hoped would permit him to experience the American landscape in its natural state and to observe its native inhabitants before they were overwhelmed by the advance of European ''civilization.'' To this fresh translation we have attached a journal of a 2016 automobile trip by poet Harvey Mudd that retraces Tocqueville's route, Detroit to Saginaw, that provides a contemporary look...
HistoryUnited States19th CenturyPoetryAnthologies (multiple authors)
RELEASED2017
PUBLISHERPorcupine Press
LENGTH175
LANGUAGEEN
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Alexis de TocquevilleFrench political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville, was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is best known for his works *Democracy in America* (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and *The Old Regime and the Revolution* (1856). In both, he analysed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849–1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution. He retired from political life after Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup and thereafter began work on *The Old Regime and the Revolution*. Tocqueville argued the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV. The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals. Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government and was skeptical of the extremes of democracy. During his time in parliament, he sat on the centre-left, but the complex and restless nature of his liberalism has led to contrasting interpretations and admirers across the political spectrum. Regarding his political position, Tocqueville wrote "the word 'left' is... the word I wanted to attach to my name so that it would remain attached to it forever." **Source**: [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville) on Wikipedia.
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Fifteen Days in the Wilderness
Alexis de Tocqueville is best known for having written a brilliant study of the emerging American democracy, its politics and form of government, its economics, demographics, and attitudes, in short almost everything that could be known about this new country and the character of the new man, the "American." His book is, of course, Democracy in America. His insights were the result of a nine-month trip that he made to the United States with a friend in 1831. ''Fifteen Days in the Wilderness'' is the journal that Tocqueville kept of a trek the two men took into the lower Michigan peninsula, a side-trip that he hoped would permit him to experience the American landscape in its natural state and to observe its native inhabitants before they were overwhelmed by the advance of European ''civilization.'' To this fresh translation we have attached a journal of a 2016 automobile trip by poet Harvey Mudd that retraces Tocqueville's route, Detroit to Saginaw, that provides a contemporary look...
HistoryUnited States19th CenturyPoetryAnthologies (multiple authors)
RELEASED2017
PUBLISHERPorcupine Press
LENGTH175
LANGUAGEEN
Alexis de TocquevilleFrench political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville, was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is best known for his works *Democracy in America* (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and *The Old Regime and the Revolution* (1856). In both, he analysed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849–1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution. He retired from political life after Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup and thereafter began work on *The Old Regime and the Revolution*. Tocqueville argued the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV. The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals. Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government and was skeptical of the extremes of democracy. During his time in parliament, he sat on the centre-left, but the complex and restless nature of his liberalism has led to contrasting interpretations and admirers across the political spectrum. Regarding his political position, Tocqueville wrote "the word 'left' is... the word I wanted to attach to my name so that it would remain attached to it forever." **Source**: [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville) on Wikipedia.
