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A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France

The French Revolution is undoubtedly one of the most significant events in world history, one whose repercussions still affect Western society today, two hundred years later. The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one... Read Full Overview

This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As both a Tocqueville scholar and an award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer... Read Full Overview

The continuation of Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution.

With his monumental work The Old Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)--best known for his classic Democracy in America--envisioned... Read Full Overview

First published in French in 1856, French diplomat and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville's "The Old Regime and the French Revolution" is one of the most influential treatises written on the French Revolution. Tocqueville begins by tracing the causes of the French Revolution... Read Full Overview

The continuation of Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution.

With his monumental work The Old Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)--best known for his classic Democracy in America--envisioned... Read Full Overview

This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As both a Tocqueville scholar and an award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

" Cet ouvrage est une tude de sociologie politique compar e, comme l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu. Tocqueville voulait d montrer par l'exemple de l'histoire fran aise que l'Etat moderne cr e la centralisation et que celle-ci va de pair avec la d mocratisation de la soci t... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview