Alexis De Tocqueville

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Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.

Democracy in America, Volume 2

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L'antico regime e la Rivoluzione

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The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France. Tocqueville speculates on the future of democracy in the United States, discussing possible threats to democracy and possible dangers of democracy. These include his belief that democracy has a tendency to degenerate into "soft despotism" as well as the risk of developing a tyranny of the majority. He observes that the strong role religion played in the United States was due to its separation from the government, a separation all parties found agreeable. He contrasts this to France where there was what he perceived to be an unhealthy antagonism between democrats and the religious, which he relates to the connection between church and state. Insightful analysis of political society was supplemented in the second volume by description of civil society as a sphere of private and civilian affairs. Ebook EPUB version - flexible layout with scalable text.

Democracy in America

In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America," an exhaustive analysis of the successes and failures of the American form of government, a republican representative democracy. Tocqueville believed that over the past seven hundred years the social and economic conditions of humanity were progressively becoming more equal. The future was, in his opinion, inevitably drawing humanity towards the democratic ideal thus diminishing the power of the aristocracy. Tocqueville's predictions of the changing nature of human civilization seem almost clairvoyant in retrospect. First published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840, "Democracy in America" remains one of the most important historical documents of America and political analysis of its form of government. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, includes both unabridged volumes as translated by Henry Reeve, and an introduction by John Bigelow.

Democracy in America (Volumes 1 and 2, Unabridged) [translated by Henry Reeve with an Introduction by John Bigelow]

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840). In both he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV. The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals. Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy."

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

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Translated By Henry Reeve

Democracy In America (Volume II)

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Democracy in America - Vol I and II

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Democracy in America -

Volumen 2 del comentario clásico sobre la influencia de la democracia en el intelecto, los sentimientos y las acciones de los estadounidenses. Con una introducción de Phillips Bradley.En 1831, el gobierno francés envió a Alexis de Tocqueville y Gustave de Beaumont a estudiar el sistema penitenciario estadounidense. En sus cartas posteriores, Tocqueville indica que él y Beaumont utilizaron sus asuntos oficiales como pretexto para estudiar la sociedad estadounidense. [3] Llegaron a la ciudad de Nueva York en mayo de ese año y pasaron nueve meses viajando por los Estados Unidos, estudiando las cárceles y recopilando información sobre la sociedad estadounidense, incluido su carácter religioso, político y económico. Los dos también visitaron brevemente Canadá, pasando unos días en el verano de 1831 en lo que entonces era el Bajo Canadá (actual Quebec) y el Alto Canadá (actual Ontario).

Democracia en America, Vol. 2

De los viajes de Alex de Tocqueville a través de los EE. UU. En la década de 1830 surgió un estudio perspicaz de una joven democracia y sus instituciones. Esta edición de 2 volúmenes presenta el texto original de Tocqueville. Notas al pie, bibliografía.

DEMOCRACIA EN AMÉRICA, Vol. 1

Pubblicato per le prima volta nel 1856, 'L'Antico regime e la Rivoluzione' si basa su di una ricerca molto approfondita, mai effettuata prima, dei documenti amministrativi e pubblicistici della Francia del secolo XVIII. Con un'esposizione di eccezionale chiarezza e notevole acume critico, Tocqueville, allora molto noto come saggista e uomo politico, mette in luce non solo il sistema di governo dell'assolutismo francese, ma anche, e soprattutto, la struttura di classe della Francia prerivoluzionaria minata da profonde contraddizioni interne. L'idea fondamentale che scaturisce da quest ricerca è quella di una sostanziale continuità tra la Francia dell'Antico regime e la Frnacia dell'Ottocento, rappresentata soprattutto dalla tendenza all'accentramento amministrativo, un elemento che spinge in direzione di regimi autoritari o che comunque pone molti limiti all'esplicazione della libertà politica, in nome della quale la Rivoluzione era iniziata.

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 to the structure of society of France prior to the Revolution, what he terms the "Ancien Regime". Tocqueville rejected the notion that the Revolution was a radical transformation of French society. He instead suggests his theory of continuity, specifically that the Revolution was not an attempt to change the nature of society in a truly fundamental way, but to wrest control from the ancient, feudal landed aristocracy and replace those outdated institutions with a representative democracy. He makes the important observation that the government of Napoleon was autocratic, strongly centralized, and thus not much different from the "Ancien Regime". Tocqueville was a fierce proponent of social institutions based on freedom and equality rather than on the rigid social hierarchy of the feudal social system of the Middle Ages, a system that was increasingly untenable in the age of enlightenment. Tocqueville's treatise remains a timely and important work on social class, revolution, and democracy. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of John Bonner.

The Ancien Regime and the Revolution

2017 Reprint of 1856 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. In this work de Tocqueville analyzes French society before the French Revolution--the so-called "Ancien Regime"--and investigates the forces that caused the Revolution. It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution. De Tocqueville develops his main theory about the French revolution, the theory of continuity, in which he states that even though the French tried to dissociate themselves from the past and from the autocratic old regime, they eventually reverted to a powerful central government, in the form of Napoleon.

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