Tocqueville: 97 books

Book cover of Textes essentiels
by François LAURENT, Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2017

Seuls quelques textes de Tocqueville sont connus ( De la démocratie en Amérique, L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution) dans lesquels il développe sa vision de la démocratie dont l'idée d'égalité des conditions est un "fait providentiel". De nombreux textes peu connus qui ont contribué à préciser...
Book cover of The Recollections of Alexis De Tocqueville
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Alexis de Tocqueville made his entrance in political life in 1839.[1] At the outbreak of the Revolution of February he was in the prime of his age and in the maturity of his talent. He threw himself into the struggle, resolving to devote himself to the interests of the country and of society, and he...
Book cover of Democracy in America

Democracy in America

And Two Essays on America

by Alexis Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003

In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville's study of the strengths...
Book cover of The Old Regime and the French Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

One of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution, this treatise is the work of a celebrated political thinker and historian. Alexis de Tocqueville reveals the rebellion's origins and consequences by examining France's political and cultural environment during the late eighteenth...
Book cover of Ancien Regime and the Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008

The Ancien Régime 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 régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging...
Book cover of Travail sur l'Algérie suivi de Au soleil (Maupassant)
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Guy de Maupassant
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2013

Le 7 mai 1841, de grand matin, alors que son bateau vient de franchir le cap Caxine, Alexis de Tocqueville découvre avec admiration le site d'Alger. Depuis la conquête, au trapèze de la partie arabe sont venues s'ajouter de belles rues à arcades bordées de maisons européennes, et il compare...
Book cover of Journeys to England and Ireland
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

This extraordinary series of observations on England and Ireland complements de Tocqueville's masterpieces on the United States and France in the mid-nineteenth century. These pages are perhaps the most penetrating writings on the spirit of British politics. In effect, as indicated by John Stuart...
Book cover of L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution
by Alexis De Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2013

Dans son ouvrage *L'*Ancien Régime et la Révolution, Tocqueville montre que la Révolution de 1789 ne constitue nullement une rupture dans l'Histoire de France. Selon lui, l'Ancien Régime s'inscrit déjà dans le processus d'égalisation des conditions qui s'explique par deux évolutions complémentaires...
Book cover of Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

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...
Book cover of Democracy in America Volume 1
by Alexis De Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015

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...
Book cover of L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2013

L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution Alexis de Tocqueville, penseur politique, historien et écrivain français (1805-1859) Ce livre numérique présente «L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution», de Alexis de Tocqueville, édité...
Book cover of Democracy in America, in English and the original French, complete
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2017

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"...
Book cover of Mémoire sur le paupérisme Suivi de : Second mémoire sur le paupérisme (texte inédit).
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Citation (Extrait) : « LORSQU'ON parcourt les diverses contrées de l'Europe, on est frappé d'un spectacle très extraordinaire et en apparence inexplicable. Les pays qui paraissent les plus misérables sont ceux qui, en réalité, comptent le moins d'indigents, et chez les peuples...
Book cover of Seconde lettre sur l'Algérie

Seconde lettre sur l'Algérie

suivie de Rapport sur l'Algérie (1847) - 1ère partie

by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2003

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...
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