Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a German NoblemanUniversity of Missouri Press, 29 de juny 2018 - 394 pàgines In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed so large in early republican Americans’ minds. Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including this fictional, satiric travel memoir in response to Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America. Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund’s dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund’s reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Mattes shows how Grund’s work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States. |
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... State's Challenge to Constitutional Government Joseph Postell From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction Forrest A. Nabors Contents Preface Timeline of Francis J. Grund Introduction Biography Tocqueville.
... State's Challenge to Constitutional Government Joseph Postell From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction Forrest A. Nabors Contents Preface Timeline of Francis J. Grund Introduction Biography Tocqueville.
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... Tocqueville and Grund on Democracy and Aristocracy in America Aristocracy in America: Some Notes on Its Publication History, Structure, and Characteristics Aristocracy in America From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman To the American ...
... Tocqueville and Grund on Democracy and Aristocracy in America Aristocracy in America: Some Notes on Its Publication History, Structure, and Characteristics Aristocracy in America From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman To the American ...
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... Tocqueville.” The second book, entitled Aristocracy in America and published in 1839, even led the editor of the first American edition of the work, George E. Probst, to give Grund the nickname “the Jacksonian Tocqueville.”2 ...
... Tocqueville.” The second book, entitled Aristocracy in America and published in 1839, even led the editor of the first American edition of the work, George E. Probst, to give Grund the nickname “the Jacksonian Tocqueville.”2 ...
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... Tocqueville”—and despite the obvious allusion to Tocqueville's essay in its title—Aristocracy in America has never been brought into dialogue with Tocqueville's masterpiece, nor have historians analyzed the work in regard to its ...
... Tocqueville”—and despite the obvious allusion to Tocqueville's essay in its title—Aristocracy in America has never been brought into dialogue with Tocqueville's masterpiece, nor have historians analyzed the work in regard to its ...
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... Tocqueville. Like Tocqueville, Trollope, and others, Grund, due to his being raised in the Habsburg Empire and his time at the University of Vienna, was familiar with the disposition of the European nobility, which permitted him to ...
... Tocqueville. Like Tocqueville, Trollope, and others, Grund, due to his being raised in the Habsburg Empire and his time at the University of Vienna, was familiar with the disposition of the European nobility, which permitted him to ...
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