Author: Clark, Manning; Clark, Dymphna (editor); Headon, David (editor); Williams, John (editor).
Title: The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville.
Description: Melbourne Melbourne University Press / Manning Clark House, 2000. Paperback small octavo (with flaps), very good plus condition. 185 pp. The Masters thesis of the noted Australian historian, published posthumously. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) was one of the greatest political theorists of the 19th century. Reads more like a discussion in political philosophy than a history thesis. His underlying concern was how to ensure that civil liberties and democratic institutions are not used by those opposed to them as stepping-stones to dictatorship. ISBN: 0522849253

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