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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

Författare till Democracy in America

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French writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Verneuil to an aristocratic Norman family. He entered the bar in 1825 and became an assistant magistrate at Versailles. In 1831, he was sent to the United States to report on the prison system. This journey produced a book called On the visa mer Penitentiary System in the United States (1833), as well as a much more significant work called Democracy in America (1835--40), a treatise on American society and its political system. Active in French politics, Tocqueville also wrote Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), in which he argued that the Revolution of 1848 did not constitute a break with the past but merely accelerated a trend toward greater centralization of government. Tocqueville was an observant Catholic, and this has been cited as a reason why many of his insights, rather than being confined to a particular time and place, reach beyond to see a universality in all people everywhere. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Democracy in America (1835) 5,709 exemplar
Den gamla regimen och revolutionen (1856) 1,334 exemplar
Om demokratin i Amerika. Bok 1. (1835) 1,033 exemplar
Democracy in America {abridged} (1956) 1,019 exemplar
Om demokratin i Amerika. Bok 2. (1840) 933 exemplar
Recollections (1893) 188 exemplar
Memoir on Pauperism (1997) 84 exemplar
Letters from America (2000) 56 exemplar
Journey to America (1959) 43 exemplar
A Fortnight in the Wilderness (1998) 40 exemplar
Writings on Empire and Slavery (2000) 33 exemplar
American Institutions and Their Influence (1851) — Författare — 31 exemplar
The Tocqueville Reader: a Life in Letters and Politics (2002) — Författare — 30 exemplar
Democracy in America, Volume I (2009) 22 exemplar
Tocqueville's America (1983) 18 exemplar
Tocqueville : Oeuvres, Tome 3 (2004) 16 exemplar
Regards sur le Bas-Canada (2003) 10 exemplar
Minnen (2015) 7 exemplar
Dizionario delle idee (1997) 6 exemplar
Cogunlugun Zorbaligi (2020) 5 exemplar
Le despotisme démocratique (2009) 4 exemplar
Un Perfil de Norteamérica (1997) 3 exemplar
Correspondencia (1985) 3 exemplar
Democracy in America (abridged) — Författare — 2 exemplar
De la colonie en Algérie (1837) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Tocqueville au Bas-Canada (2017) 2 exemplar
Viaggi (1997) 2 exemplar
Wspomnienia (1987) 2 exemplar
Toqueville (2013) 2 exemplar
Oeuvres choisies 2 exemplar
Dawne rządy a rewolucja (2019) 1 exemplar
Listy (1999) 1 exemplar
Scritti politici (2013) 1 exemplar
Kleine politische Schriften (2014) 1 exemplar
Vita attraverso le lettere (1996) 1 exemplar
De la démocratie en Amérique (Tome 2) (French Edition) (2018) — Författare — 1 exemplar
Das Zeitalter der Gleichheit (1954) 1 exemplar
Il vecchio regime 1 exemplar
Journey To America 1 exemplar
Memoria sobre el pauperismo (2003) 1 exemplar

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Classics of Modern Political Theory : Machiavelli to Mill (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar
America Visited (1937) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
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Vedertaget namn
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel
Andra namn
TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis DE
DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel
DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis Charles Henri Clerel
Födelsedag
1805-07-29
Avled
1859-04-16
Begravningsplats
Tocqueville Cemetery, Normandy, France
Kön
male
Nationalitet
France
Födelseort
Paris, France
Dödsort
Cannes, France
Dödsorsak
Tuberculosis
Bostadsorter
Cannes, France
Verneuil-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Paris, France
Utbildning
Collège Royal, Metz
Lycée Fabert, Metz
Yrken
magistrate
political philosopher
aristocrat
Organisationer
Chamber of Deputies (1839)
Priser och utmärkelser
Académie française (1841)
Kort biografi
Alexis de Tocqueville was a political thinker and writer still famous today especially for his Democracy in America, the classic work that appeared in two volumes in 1835 and 1840 following his travels in the USA. Also in 1835, de Tocqueville married Mary Motley, an Englishwoman, against the wishes of his family because she was not an aristocrat.

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Alexis de Tocqueville compares with disinterested honesty 19th century Democracy, especially American democracy, with the European aristocracies that preceded it. In this two-volume work, he outlines both the benefits and dangers of both social orders. With the certain knowledge that the age of the aristocracy is passed, de Tocqueville writes with the ultimate hope that his book will serve as a warning to citizens under democratic rule, that they will not succumb to the apathy that is their greatest enemy, which would allow the government to pursue its natural tendency to metastasize into the private realm of citizen, governing an ever greater number of minutiae in the personal lives of its subjects, and annulling the freedom that was originally sought in creating a democracy… (mer)
 
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Coffeehag | 32 andra recensioner | Oct 5, 2023 |
One of the most pivotal books in my college education. It got me to start rethinking the concept of prisons and mass incarceration in America.
 
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beckyrenner | 12 andra recensioner | Aug 3, 2023 |

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Francis Bowen Editor, Translator
Henry Reeve Translator
Roger Boesche Editor, Translator
Hugh Griffith Introduction
Michael Kammen Introduction
Aurelian Criautu Editor/Translator
Jeremy Jennings Editor/Translator
Delba Winthrop Editor, Translator
George Lawrence Translator
John Stuart Mill Introduction
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Harold J. Laski Introduction
Stephen D. Grant Translator
Alan Ryan Introduction
Joseph Epstein Introduction
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Gerald Bevan Translator
Eduardo Nolla Translator
François Furet Editor, Preface
John Lukacs Translator, Editor
Daniel J. Boorstin Introduction
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Joan Casas Translator
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Hugh Brogan Introduction
Frederick Brown Editor, Translator
Fernand Braudel Introduction
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Emmet Larkin Translator, Editor
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Statistik

Verk
187
Även av
16
Medlemmar
13,716
Popularitet
#1,692
Betyg
4.1
Recensioner
94
ISBN
638
Språk
24
Favoritmärkt
18

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