The essay focusses on the writings of Tocqueville and Beaumont regarding slavery and racial discrimination in America as part of their intellectual engagement. Slavery is an essential part of democracy as experienced during Tocqueville's and Beaumont's travel in the first half of XIXth century and, for this, a significant part of the "nouveau état du monde".
Il "fait étrange" dell'aristocrazia della pelle. Beaumont, Tocqueville su libertà e schiavitù
CHIGNOLA, SANDRO
2011
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The essay focusses on the writings of Tocqueville and Beaumont regarding slavery and racial discrimination in America as part of their intellectual engagement. Slavery is an essential part of democracy as experienced during Tocqueville's and Beaumont's travel in the first half of XIXth century and, for this, a significant part of the "nouveau état du monde".File in questo prodotto:
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