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Aristocracy in America :

(Number (ISBN

0826221564

(Number (ISBN

0826274056

(Number (ISBN

9780826221568

(Number (ISBN

9780826274052

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9780826221568

Title Proper

Aristocracy in America :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

from the sketch-book of a German nobleman /

First Statement of Responsibility

Francis J. Grund ; edited and with an introduction by Armin Mattes.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Columbia, Missouri :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Missouri Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvii, 434 pages)

Series Title

Studies in constitutional democracy

Text of Note

"With excerpts from The Americans in their moral, social, and political relations [by] Francis J. Grund."

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Part 1. Biography -- Part 2. Tocqueville and Grund on Democracy and aristocracy in America -- Part 3. Aristocracy in America : some notes on its publication history, structure, and characteristics -- Aristocracy in America : from the sketch-book of a German nobleman -- Excerpts from the Americans in their moral, social, and political relations.

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"Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including Aristocracy in America (1839), a fictional, satiric travel memoir written in response to Alexis de Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America. However, Grund's political work and life have never been analyzed in depth. In his introduction to this long out-of-print work, Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund's dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund's reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Comparing Aristocracy in America with Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Mattes shows how Grund's work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States"--Provided by publisher.

Title

Aristocracy in America.

International Standard Book Number

9780826221568

HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- General.

Manners and customs.

Politics and government.

United States, Politics and government, 1783-1865.

United States, Social life and customs, 1783-1865.

United States.

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Book number

Grund, Francis J., (Francis Joseph),1804 or 1805-1863

Mattes, Armin

Grund, Francis J., (Francis Joseph),1804 or 1805-1863.

Date of Transaction

20200822141605.0

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