Tocqueville and the frontiers of democracyedited by] Richard Boyd, Georgetown University, Ewa Atanassow, European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin) 

 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (pages cm.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; Short title key to works cited; Introduction: Tocqueville and the frontiers of democracy Ewa Atanassow and Richard Boyd; Part I. The Meaning of Democracy and the Democratic Revolution: 1. Democracy and revolution in Tocqueville: the frontiers of democracy Nestor Capdevila; 2. The frontier between democracy and aristocracy Ran Halevi; 3. Tocqueville's Burke, or story as history Ralph Lerner; Part II. Democratization in a Non-Western Context: 4. Tocqueville and religion: beyond the frontier of Christendom Alan Kahan; 5. Deliberating democratization with Tocqueville: the case of East Asia Cheryl Welch; 6. Tocquevillean thoughts on higher education in the Middle East Joshua Mitchell; Part III. Challenges of Globalization: Democracy, Markets, and Nationhood: 7. Tocqueville and the unsettled global village Susan McWilliams; 8. Nationhood: democracy's frontier? Ewa Atanassow; 9. Commerce, glory, and empire: Montesquieu's legacy Celine Spector; Part IV. Democracy, Imperialism, and Foreign Policy: 10. The surprising M. Tocqueville: necessity, foreign policy, and civic virtue David Clinton; 11. Democracy and domination: empire, slavery, and democratic corruption in Tocqueville's thought Jennifer Pitts; 12. Tocqueville and the Napoleonic legend Richard Boyd; Part V. Democracy's Old and New Frontiers: 13. Tocqueville, the problem of equality, and John Ford's Stagecoach Robert Pippin; 14. The poetry of democracy Paul Berman; 15. Tocqueville and the local frontiers of democracy Robert T. Gannett, Jr; Epilogue: new frontiers, old dilemmas Richard Boyd; List of contributors; Bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/> "This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings as a jumping-off point to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107336421 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 --Political and social views.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy.<br/>Democratization.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC229  / .T637 2013