Alexis: 1223 books

Published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as Of Democracy in America, but English translations are usually entitled simply Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines...

Over the course of nine months in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker, and accompanied by Gustave de Beaumont, travelled the United States under the pretext of studying the American prison system. Over the course of his travels, Tocqueville also studied American society, religion,...

De la démocratie en Amérique published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as Of Democracy in America, but English translations are usually entitled simply Democracy...

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Gustave de Beaumont’s first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.  The work contains a critical comparison of two competing American penitentiary...

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication. Written just before Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup prompted the great...

Cet ouvrage inclut l’ensemble des observations qu’Alexis de Tocqueville a rédigées sur la nation française nord-américaine lors de son voyage en terroitoire nord-américain, au mois d’août de 1831. Tocqueville annonce son intention de faire ce qu’il décrit comme “le voyage à la mode...

The horror of her life starts when Peggy Brown wakes up in the parking lot of the neighbour-hood mall alone. The last thing she remembered was shopping with her husband Jacob and two years old daughter Natalie. Now they have both mysteriously disappeared and Jacob's cellphone was dead. Terror...

First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women’s literary careers. Alexis Easley demonstrates how women writers capitalized on the publishing conventions associated...

To this day, Johann Strauss, Jr remains one of the most popular composers in his native city of Vienna. In The Legacy of Johann Strauss, Zoë Alexis Lang examines how the reception of Strauss's waltzes played a key role in the construction of twentieth-century Austrian identity. Using press coverage...

The full text in both English and French and links from the tables of contents to every chapter. According to Wikipedia: "De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. A "literal"...

De retour de son voyage en Amerique en 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) est séduit par l'aventure colonialiste dans laquelle la France vient de se lancer en Algérie... Mais selon l'auteur du fameux De la démocratie en Amérique, la conquête est menée au mépris des spécificités du pays...

Dans ce mémoire présenté en 1835 à la Société académique de Cherbourg, de Tocqueville analyse la gestion de la pauvreté dans la société modrene divisée en plusieurs 'classes sociales' .Pour ce faire, il remonte jusqu'au XIIème siècle où seules deux catégories existaient : ceux qui possédaient...

Une femme vampire possédant les secrets les plus enviés de l'humanité - à savoir ceux de l'immortalité et de la transmutation du plomb en or ! - est brûlée vive sur le bûcher. Quarante-cinq ans plus tard, son amant, devenu marquis et respectable notable du régime, se souvient soudainement...

Born in the Ukraine, educated in Munich, and having practiced medicine in the United States, author Alexis Georg Hoen has been exposed to widely differing political systems and religious beliefs, and he has always maintained an interest as to the origin of these beliefs and their relation to the innermost...