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Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859) Occupies An Eminent Position In That Small Circle Of Nineteenth-century Thinkers Considered Indispensable To An Understanding Of Our Modern Condition. Born Of Aristocratic Parents Who Barely Survived The Terror Of 1793, He Became The Century's Most Clear-eyed Analyst Of The New Kind Of Democratic Equality That Was Then Emerging. Best Known As The Author Of Democracy In America (1835, 1840), One Of The Greatest Works In The Literature Of Political Science And Philosophy, He Also Wrote One Of The Enduring Classics Of History, The Old Regime And The French Revolution (1856), Perhaps The Most Influential Single Work On Its Subject. In Addition, He Wrote A Penetrating, Posthumously Published Memoir, The Recollections, And, In A Series Of Essays And Official Reports, Some Of The Most Incisive Analyses Of The Social Problems Facing The New World That Was Then Coming Into Being Problems Ranging From Slavery To Imperialism To Pauperism And Crime.^ All The While He Pursued An Active Public Career As A Lawyer And Judge, A Member Of The Chamber Of Deputies From 1839 To 1849, A Member Of The Constituent Assembly After The Revolution Of 1848, And France's Minist

Author

Mancini, Matthew J

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805743050

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir