Tocqueville: Democracy in America (In Our Time)
1835 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew J
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Around 1835
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)