Alexis De Tocqueville

Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clrel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America 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. Democracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. An eminent representative of the classical liberal political tradition, Tocqueville was an active participant in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution. He retired from political life after Louis Napolon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I.

Alexis De Tocqueville's Books:

[American Institutions And Their Influence | Correspondence Conversations Of Alexis De Tocqueville With | De La Democratie En Amrique Vol 1 | De La Democratie En Amrique Vol 2 | De La Democratie En Amrique Vol 3 | De La Democratie En Amrique Vol 4 | Democracy In America Vol 1 | Democracy In America Vol 2]