Pillars of the Republics: Early Monuments and the Politics of Memory in the Post-Colonial Americas
When trying to explain the success of democracy in the United States in 1831 Tocqueville used the comparative method in singling out the most important explanatory factors. He concluded that it were not the natural circumstances like absence of envious neighbors or the availability of natural resour...
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Iberoamericana / Vervuert
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/439 |