Tocqueville: 97 books

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever...

Le texte intégral de l'œuvre philosophique et un dossier pédagogique complet ! Le fruit d'une véritable observation et de réflexions profondes sur la réalité politique et historique du début du XIXe siècle. Contexte Né en 1805, Tocqueville n'a pas vécu la Révolution française...

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In Democracy in America, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the past seven hundred years.    Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place. The aristocracy, Tocqueville believed, was gradually disappearing...

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...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list) PART THE FIRST CHAPTER I Origin and Character of these Recollections—General aspect of the period preceding the Revolution of 1848—Preliminary symptoms of the Revolution CHAPTER II The Banquets—Sense...

French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville's classic treatise on the American way of life. Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and...

Ce livre écrit par Alexis de Tocqueville entre 1835 et 1840 est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. De la démocratie en Amérique est d'abord et avant tout une analyse sur la démocratie représentative républicaine, et de ses formes particulières aux États-Unis. L'œuvre...

This antiquarian book contains the second volume of Alexis de Tocqueville's seminal book, 'Democracy in America'. Within this text, Tocqueville analyses the living standards and social conditions of individuals, and in particular their connection to the market and state in Western societies. 'Democracy...

According to Wikipedia: "De la démocratie en Amérique (published in ... 1835 and ... 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses. A literal translation of its title is On Democracy in America, but the usual translation of...

A New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment. 
As debates rage over the future of America and the country's relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American culture from the perspective of a nineteenth century French thinker and student of democracy....

Tocqueville was not only an active participant in the French Revolution of 1848, he was also a deeply perceptive observer with a detached attitude of mind. He saw the pitfalls of the course his country was taking more clearly than any of his contemporaries, including Karl Marx. Recollections was first...

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,...

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...