Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America, published in 1835, is Tocquerville's major work, it was published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology. He wrote of the New World and its burgeoning democratic order.

The uniquely American morals and opinions, Tocqueville argued, lay in the origins of American society and derived from the peculiar social conditions that had welcomed colonists in prior centuries. Unlike Europe, venturers to America found a vast expanse of open land. Any and all who arrived could own their own land and cultivate an independent life. Sparse elites and a number of landed aristocrats existed, but, according to Tocqueville, these few stood no chance against the rapidly developing values bred by such vast land ownership.

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