Author:Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
(1805–1859)

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French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies

Works

Democracy in America (English translation by Henry Reeve)
- 1848 edition in one volume
- Volume 1 (1835)
- Volume 2 (1840)
American institutions and their influence (1851) external source
Letters on American Slavery from Victor Hugo, de Tocqueville, Emile de Girardin, Carnot, Passy, Mazzini, Humboldt, O. Lafayette (1860) short work external source
The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined (1856) external source
The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856) external source
The state of society in France before the Revolution of 1789, and the causes which led to that event (English translation by Henry Reeve, 1856) external source (1888 edition)
Memoir, Letters, and Remains (1862)
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
Correspondence & conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859 (1872)
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
Recollections (1918) external source

Works about de Tocqueville

The predictions of Hamilton and De Tocqueville by James Bryce (1887) external source
Jared Sparks and Alexis de Tocqueville by Herbert Baxter Adams (1898) external source
Notice of Alexis de Tocqueville by Edgar Childe (1859) short work external source
"Alexis de Tocqueville," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Charles Maurice Clerel, Comte de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Count de," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)

External links

online books by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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