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Democracy in America
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
When it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of "Democracy in America" was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic thus far--complete with the most faithful and readable translation to date, impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references, and a ...
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Old Regime and the French Revolution
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Stuart Gilbert (Translator)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of "Democracy in America," the most-quoted book written about the United States. "The Old Regime and the Revolution" is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, ...
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Tocqueville: Democracy in America
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis De Tocqueville, Olivier Zunz (Editor)
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions of America and Americans ever written.
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Democracy in America, Vol. 2
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Phillips Bradley (Editor), LuAnn Walther (Editor)
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions of America and Americans ever written.
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Democracy in America: Abridged Edition
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The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions of America and Americans ever written.
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The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Alan S Kahan (Editor), Olivier Zunz (Editor)
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century, and yet this is the first comprehensive collection of his written work. Born to an aristocratic family, he was consumed by the notion of democracy and traveled widely throughout the world, mainly in America, to understand it. He is the celebrated writer ...
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The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis Chares Henri Clere De Tocqueville
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American Institutions and Their Influence
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Recollections on the French Revolu
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, J P Mayer (Editor), A P Kerr (Editor)
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Writings on Empire and Slavery
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Professor Jennifer Pitts (Translator)
After completing his research for "Democracy in America", Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa, which he believed deserving of similar attention. Tocqueville began studying Algerian history and culture, making two trips to Algeria in 1841 and 1847. He quickly became one of France's foremost experts ...
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The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Francoise Melonio (Editor), Francois Furet (Editor)
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's ...
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Selected Letters on Politics and Society
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
Correspondence by the eminent nineteenth-century French historian documents his polical views, his careers as a writer and politician, and his complex personality.
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Memoir on Pauperism
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Seymour Drescher (Translator), Gertrude Himmelfarb (Introduction by)
This piece was written in 1835 immediately after Alexis de Tocqueville had completed the first volume of Democracy in America. It was based on his visit to England in 1833, where he found that one-sixth of the population had been reduced to reliance on poor relief at a cost approaching nearly one-fifth of the total national expenditure. Today, 17% ...
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Journeys to England and Ireland
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On the Penitentiary System in the United States: And Its Application in France
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave De Beaumont, Herman R Lantz (Foreword by)
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Tocquevilles America: Great Quotations
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederick Kershner, Jr. (Editor)
This collection of the insights and observations of the young Frenchman's visit to 1851 America continues to be a relevant and thought-provoking examination of the American experiment.
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The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Gerald Bevan (Translator), Professor Hugh Brogan (Introduction by)
"The Ancien Regime and the Revolution" is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a merciless critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and ...
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Alexis de Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835
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Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
[L]egal charity has not only taken freedom of movement from the English poor but also from those who are threatened by poverty. -from "Memoir on Pauperism" Inspired by a trip to England at a time when that nation was in the throes of political, social, and economic strife and poverty was rampant, political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ...
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La Democracia En America 2
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El viaje de nueve meses a traves de Estados Unidos realizado en 1831 por ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE (1805-1859), en busca de informacion sobre las reformas del sistema penitenciario norteamericano, inspiro una de las mas importantes obras de teoria politica y de interpretacion historica de la epoca contemporanea.
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A Fortnight in the Wilderness
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Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville V1: With Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, M C M Simpson (Editor)
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, ...
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Journey to America
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, A P Kerr (Photographer), Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clere Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) visited the United States in 1831 as an assistant magistrate of the French government. His great work Democracy in America was published in 1835. This volume contains all of the notebooks Tocqueville kept during his American journey.
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The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville, Francois Furet (Editor), Francoise Melonio (Editor)
With his monumental work "The Old Regime and the Revolution", Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) - best known for his classic "Democracy in America" - envisioned a multivolume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that would examine the implications of French history on the nature and development of democratic society. Volume 1, which ...
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Democracy in America, Part 1
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions of America and Americans ever written.
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