Eminent Victorians on American democracy the view from Albion
Introduction : transatlantic attitudes -- John Stuart Mill : the tyranny of conformity -- Walter Bagehot : the tyranny of the Constitution -- Sir Henry Maine : democracy denied -- James Bryce : Anglo-Saxon democracy -- Conclusion : Anglo-American exceptionalism.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
2012
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : transatlantic attitudes -- John Stuart Mill : the tyranny of conformity -- Walter Bagehot : the tyranny of the Constitution -- Sir Henry Maine : democracy denied -- James Bryce : Anglo-Saxon democracy -- Conclusion : Anglo-American exceptionalism. Surveys a wide range of nineteenth-century British opinion on the United States, significant to them not only because it was the world's most advanced democracy, but also because it was a political experiment that was seen to anticipate the future of Britain Surveys a wide range of nineteenth-century British opinion on the United States, significant to them not only because it was the world's most advanced democracy, but also because it was a political experiment that was seen to anticipate the future of Britain |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | VII, 169 S 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0199640610 0-19-964061-0 9780199640614 978-0-19-964061-4 |