Alexis de Tocqueville

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1) Democracy in America: and Two essays on America

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Series

Penguin classics

Publisher

Penguin

Pub. Date

2003.

Physical Desc

lii, 935 pages ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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A brilliant new translation of de Tocqueville's masterpiece also includes an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois.

2) Letters from America

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

c2010

Physical Desc

xx, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Language

English

3) Democracy in America: translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

2000

Physical Desc

xciii, 722 p. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

4) Journey to America

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1960 [c1959]

Physical Desc

394 p. 23 cm.

Language

English

5) The ancien régime and the French Revolution

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Series

Penguin classics

Publisher

Penguin

Pub. Date

2008

Physical Desc

xxiv, 307 pages ; 20 cm.

Language

English

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Presents Tocqueville's study of the French Revolution in the context of the country's history, critiquing the call to liberty by the French people in 1789 and raising concerns that, while the revolutionary spirit had prevailed, the post-Revolutionary state had retained the tyranny it tried to overthrow.