Lucien Jaume, Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty (Princeton University Press, 2013)Īlan S. Leo Damrosch, Tocqueville's Discovery of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)Īndre Jardin, Tocqueville: A Biography (Halban, 1988) Craiutu & J.Jennings (eds), Tocqueville on America after 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Democracy in America, is a firsthand sociopolitical observation of the United States written by French lawyer Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831. Hugh Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution (Profile Books, 2006)Ī. Hugh Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (Yale University Press, 2008) Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application to France: The Complete Text (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) Futile to think that men of one generation can reverse this. It was received at once by the scholars and thinkers of Europe as a profound, impartial, and entertaining exposition of the principles of popular, representative self-government. Considered the triumph of both real social equality and the sentiment of equality to be a providential fact in the modern world. Democracy in America, the first of four volumes upon American Institutions and their Influence, was published in 1835. 1840: second volume of Democracy in America. Why Read Tocqueville's Democracy in America? 1835: first volume of Democracy in America.
Robert Gildea at the University of Oxford
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