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Jeremy Jennings - Travels with Alexis de Tocqueville
Lectures in Intellectual History
English - April 17, 2012 18:00 - 1 hour - 31.3 MB - ★★★★ - 52 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Philosophy philosophy culture education history lecture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Demoracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville is possibly the most famous book about America, but what did Tocqueville see when he visited America and how did his visit influence his writing? In this lecture, Jeremy Jennings seeks to answer both of these questions and to cast light on how other French authors saw America in the nineteenth century.