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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010213986
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141919737
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 the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037773751
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : France
ISBN : 0486476022
This1856 volume constitutes one of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution. It explores the rebellion's origins and consequences, offering timeless insights into the pursuit of individual and political freedom."
Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139498814
This 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 is uniquely qualified for the task. In his Introduction, Jon Elster draws on his recent work to lay out the structure of Tocqueville' argument. Readers will appreciate The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution for its sense of irony as well as tragedy, for its deep insights into political psychology and for its impassioned defense of liberty.
Author : Richard Herr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400879311
Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are interested in Tocqueville and his great hook on The Ancien Regime and the Revolution Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141441641
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 the reforms introduced under Louis XVI: and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s: Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III: by illuminating the grand: but ultimately doomed: call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty: nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.
Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691241524
"France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us"--
Author : Robert M. Schwartz,Robert Alan Schneider
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0874138302
This collection of essays by French and American historians testifies to the enduring importance of Alexis de Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the French Revolution, first published in 1856. Highly original in its day and now recognized as a classic, The Old Regime has since the 1970s stimulated considerable research and improved our understanding of the French Old Regime. Tocqueville and Beyond joins this trend to offer both an appreciation and critique of Tocqueville's remarkable book. From the wide-ranging perspectives of privileged nobles, men of letters, rural life, and the evolution of centralization and liberty in France as well as the Dutch Republic, these essays attest to the continuing significance of Tocqueville's classic study.
Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780226805337
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020714252
Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1420962736
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.
Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1684221544
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.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857193018
A profound and elegantly written investigation into the true causes of the French Revolution, this masterpiece by Alexis de Tocqueville remains as lively, counter-intuitive and memorable as on its first publication. Originally a bestseller simultaneously in France and Britain, today it sits at the top of book charts in China, and is beloved by historians and journalists as one of the most penetrating and creative analyses of an event that changed the face of the world.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : France
ISBN : 1139077066
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 is uniquely qualified for the task. In his Introduction, Jon Elster draws on his recent work to lay out the structure of Tocqueville's argument. Readers will appreciate The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution for its sense of irony as well as tragedy, for its deep insights into political psychology, and for its impassioned defense of liberty.