Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• PREFACE
• EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
• SUGGESTED READINGS
• A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
• Volume One
• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE
• 1 External Configuration of North America
• 2 On the Point of Departure and Its Importance for the Future of the Anglo-Americans
• 3 Social State of the Anglo-Americans
• 4 On the Principle of the Sovereignty of the People in America
• 5 Necessity of Studying What Takes Place in the Particular States before Speaking of the Government of the Union
• 6 On Judicial Power in the United States and Its Action on Political Society
• 7 On Political Judgement in the United States
• 8 On the Federal Constitution
• PART TWO
• 1 how One can Say Strictly That in the United States the People Govern
• 2 On Parties in the United States
• 3 On Freedom of the Press in the United States
• 4 On Political Association in the United States
• 5 On the Government of Democracy in America
• 6 What are the Real Advantages That American Society Derives from the Government of Democracy
• 7 On the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Effects
• 8 On What Tempers the Tyranny of the Majority in the United States
• 9 On the Principal Causes Tending to Maintain a Democratic Republic in the United States
• 10 Some Consideration on the Present State and the Probable Future of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States
• Volume Two
• NOTICE
• PART ONE
• INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
• 1 On the Philosophic Method of the Americans
• 2 On the Principal Source of Beliefs among Democratic Peoples
• 3 Why the Americans Show More Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas than Their English Fathers
• 4 Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French for General Ideas in Political Matters
• 5 How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instincts
• 6 On the Progress of Catholicism in the United States
• 7 What Makes the Mind of Democratic Peoples Lean toward Pantheism
• 8 How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man
• 9 How the Example of the Americans does not Prove that a Democratic People can have no Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Arts
• 10 Why the Americans apply Themselves to the Practice of the Sciences rather than to the Theory
• 11 In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts
• 12 Why the Americans at the Same Time Raise Such Little and Such Great Monuments
• 13 The Literary Face of Democratic Centuries
• 14 On the Literary Industry
• 15 Why the Study of Greek and Latin Literature is Particularly Useful in Democratic Societies
• 16 How American Democracy has Modified the English Language
• 17 On Some Sources of Poetry in Democratic Nations
• 18 Why American Writers and Orators are Often Bombastic
• 19 Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples
• 20 On Some Tendancies Particular to Historians in Democratic Centuries
• 21 On Parliamentary Eloquence in the United States
• PART TWO
• INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON THE SENTIMENTS OF THE AMERICANS
• 1 Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Lasting Love for Equality than for Freedom
• 2 On Individualism in Democratic Countries
• 3 How Individualism in Greater at the End of a Democratic Revolution than in Any Other Period
• 4 How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutions
• 5 On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life
• 6 On the Relation between Associations and Newspapers
• 7 Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associations
• 8 How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood
• 9 How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religion
• 10 On the Taste for Material Well-being in America
• 11 On the Particular Effects That the Love of Material Enjoyments Produces in Democratic Centuries
• 12 Why Certain Americans Display such an Exalted Spiritualism
• 13 Why the Americans Show themselves so restive in the Midst of their Well-Being
• 14 How the Taste for Material Enjoyments among Americans is United with Love of Freedom and with Care for Public Affairs
• 15 How Religious Beliefs at Times turn the Souls of the Americans toward Immaterial Enjoyments
• 16 How the Excessive Love of Well being can be harmful to Wellbeing
• 17 How in Times of Equality and doubt it is important to move back the object of human actions.
• 18 Why among the Americans all Hones Professions are Reputed Honorable
• 19 What Makes Almost All Americans incline towards Industrial Professions
• 20 How Aristocracy Could issue from Industry
• PART THREE
• INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON MORES PROPERLY SO-CALLED
• 1 How Mores Become Milder as Conditions are Equalized
• 2 How Democracy Renders the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easier
• 3 Why the Americans Have So Little Oversensitivity in their Country and Show themselves to be so oversensitive i Ouyrs
• 4 Consequences of the Preceding Three Chapters
• 5 How Democracy Modifies the Relations of Servant and Master
• 6 How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Price and Shorten the Duration of LEases
• 7 Influence of Democracy on Wages
• 8 Influence of Democracy on the Family
• 9 Education of Girls in the United States
• 10 How the Girl Is Found beneath the features of the Wife
• 11 How equality of conditions contributes to maintaining good Mores in America
• 12 How the Americans understand the equality of Man and Woman
• 13 How equality naturally divides the Americans into a multitude of Particular Little Societies
• 14 Some Reflections on American Manners
• 15 On the Gravity of the Americans and Why it does not prevent their often doing-ill considered Things
• 16 Why the National vanity of the Americans is More Restive and more Quarrelsome than that of the English
• 17 How the Aspect of society in the United States is at once agitated and monotonous
• 18 On Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies
• 19 Why one finds to many ambitious men in the United States and so few great Ambitions
• 20 On the Industry in place-hunting in certain democratic nations
• 21 Why great revolutions will become rare
• 22 Why democratic peoples naturally desire peace and democratic armies naturally war
• 23 Which is the most warlike and the most revolutionary class in democratic armies
• 24 What makes democratic armies weaker than other armies when entering into a campaign and more formidable when war is prolonged
• 25 On discipline in Democratic armies
• 26 Some considerations on War in democratic societies
• PART FOUR
• ON THE INFLUENCE THAT DEMOCRATIC IDEAS AND SENTIMENTS EXERT ON POLITICAL SOCIETY
• 1 Equality Naturally gives men the taste for free institutions
• 2 That the Ideas Democratic peoples in the matter of Government are naturally favourable to the concentration of powers
• 3 That the sentiments of democratic peoples are in accord with their ideas to bring them to concentrate power
• 4 On some particular and accidental causes that service to bring a democratic people to centralise power or turn it away from that
• 5 That among European nations of our day sovereign power increases although sovereigns are less stable
• 6 What kind of despotism democratic nations have to fear
• 7 Continuation of the preceding chapters
• 8 General view of subject
• NOTES
• SOURCES CITED BY TOCQUEVILLE
• INDEX