Project Gutenberg 2009-11-21 Public domain in the USA. 71 Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805 1859 De Tocqueville, Alexis Toqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome quatrième Reading ease score: 60.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome quatrième" by Alexis de Tocqueville is a political and sociological study written in the mid-19th century. The work examines the effects of democracy on society, culture, and political institutions, particularly focusing on the United States and drawing comparisons with European societies. Tocqueville explores concepts such as equality of conditions and how they influence social behaviors and moral attitudes among citizens. At the start of the volume, Tocqueville introduces the idea that as social conditions become more equal, people's manners soften simultaneously. He reflects on historical contexts, illustrating the stark differences in social dynamics between aristocratic and democratic societies. Through examples of feudal obligations and interpersonal relationships across class divides, he sets the stage for deeper discussions about compassion, social interactions, and the evolving roles within families and larger social structures under democratic influences. The beginning establishes a foundational understanding of how democracy reshapes individual behaviors and societal norms, providing a lens through which to analyze contemporary and future social developments. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr United States -- Politics and government United States -- Social conditions Democracy -- United States JK Text FR Politique Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 541326 541238 2024-10-13T05:59:11.460907 2023-09-13T10:34:54.980119 text/html text/html 528959 2014-01-23T10:30:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 174611 2014-01-23T10:31:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 272264 2024-10-13T05:59:22.507850 application/epub+zip 278509 2024-10-13T05:59:15.606898 application/epub+zip 257483 2024-10-13T05:59:14.047920 application/epub+zip 562054 2024-10-13T05:59:27.537860 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 521771 2024-10-13T05:59:21.357874 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 475729 2022-09-14T06:42:46.199009 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 494067 493786 2024-10-13T05:59:10.415919 2023-09-13T10:34:53.809099 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 481126 2014-01-23T10:30:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 164864 2014-01-23T10:31:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 21138 2024-10-13T05:59:27.671819 application/rdf+xml 17825 2024-10-13T05:59:14.616894 image/jpeg 3804 2024-10-13T05:59:14.331889 image/jpeg 258015 2024-10-13T05:59:11.506903 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia