Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: M. Drolet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230509649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the Revolution . Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and the plight of abandoned children. This study explores the intellectual and social context of these neglected yet startlingly innovative writings and it reveals how they proved central to the composition of those works for which Tocqueville is best known.

Author: George Wilson Pierson
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 922

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Author: Andreas Hess
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331969667X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context. It accompanies the two friends to the US and analyses the fruitful encounter between the New and the Old World that was the result of that journey, particularly in relation to emerging Atlantic democracies and revolutions. This includes the hopes but also the problems and contradictions that they have come to represent. The book also follows Tocqueville and Beaumont to England, Ireland, and Algeria. It discusses their political careers and their engagement in the abolitionist movement, their fight for liberal social and political reform, as well as their futile attempt to rationalize French colonization in Algeria.

Author: Seymour Drescher
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822975688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Alexis de Tocqueville has been extensively chronicled as a pioneer sociologist and political philosopher of democracy during the early nineteenth century. However, his writings on the problems of social and economic transitions to an industrial society have been largely overlooked. In this book, Seymour Drescher presents a thorough analysis of Tocqueville's concern for the lower classes of society, viewing his thoughts on slavery, poverty, criminality, and working class conditions, and their place in an evolving egalitarian society.

Author: Roger Boesche
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739116654
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Tocqueville's Road Map is a long overdue addition to Tocqueville scholarship that will find an audience among scholars of political thought and history."--Jacket.

Author: George Wilson Pierson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1764

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.

Author: Gustave de Beaumont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813930626
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont.

Author: James T. Schleifer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509518916
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat paradoxically famous for his insights into democracy and equality, is one of history’s greatest analysts of American society and politics. His contributions to political theory and sociology are of enduring significance. This book, from one of the world’s leading experts, is a clearly written and accessible introduction to Tocqueville’s social and political theories. Schleifer guides readers through his two major works, Democracy in America (1835/40) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), as well as his working papers, correspondence, and other writings. Schleifer examines Tocqueville’s essential themes and explores the various meanings of his key terms, including equality, democracy, liberty, and revolution. He combines a skillful exposition of Tocqueville’s analysis of the beneficial and harmful consequences of democracy with a crystal clear discussion of his often overlooked economic ideas and social reform proposals. Schleifer traces both the overall unity and the significant changes in Tocqueville’s ideas, demonstrating the complexity and subtlety of his thought and the importance of his legacy. It will be essential reading for all scholars, students, and general readers interested in the history of political thought, political theory, American politics, and sociology.