Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de
Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de (1805–59) French statesman and political analyst. Sent to the USA in 1831 to study its penal system, de Tocqueville carried out a systematic survey of US political and social institutions, publishing the results in
De la démocratie en Amerique (1835 and 1840). The book immediately found a large readership and became one of the most influential political writings of the 19th century. It remains probably the greatest of all European commentaries on US politics and society.
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Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours.(Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, American Intellectual Culture)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours. By Matthew...9: cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-2343-2.) In Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, Matthew Mancini...
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The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville. (Review of Books). (book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Manning Clark, The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville, Dymphna Clark, David Headon...Clark to the philosophy of Alexis de Tocqueville has long been known to readers...re-examine the works of Alexis de Tocqueville: Tocqueville, he said...
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Looking for America.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A LIFE by HUGH BROGAN Yale University...Joshua Mitchell HUGH BROGAN'S Alexis de Tocqueville is a masterful work, the fruit...is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook...
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'Alexis de Tocqueville': the first French critic of the US.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...the name of French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville must reign supreme. After...English-language biography of Tocqueville. That gap is now filled by...s absorbing, exhaustive Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life. Brogan, a British...
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Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours. By Matthew...9; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-2343-2.) In Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, Matthew Mancini...
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Stealing Tocqueville?(translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America")
Magazine article from: The American Prospect; 9/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Lawrence's 1966 translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America...the foregoing excerpt from Tocqueville's correspondence with Reeve...first accurate translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's nineteenth-century masterpiece...
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Tocqueville's journey on C-SPAN.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
Magazine article from: PS: Political Science & Politics; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont traveled...s Rationale The impetus for the Tocqueville series came from several quarters...contemporary political figures use Alexis de Tocqueville as a source to support and give...
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Teaching through Tocqueville.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
Magazine article from: PS: Political Science & Politics; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...for enlightening students. Alexis de Tocqueville seems to be an exception...little more than mention a few Tocqueville sound bites in class to reinforce...we were 160 years ago when Alexis de Tocqueville graced our shores"; "Tocqueville...
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Who is Alexis de Tocqueville and Why Are Americans Celebrating His 200th Birthday?
PR Newswire; 7/28/2005; 580 words
; ...Court to corporate scandals. Alexis de Tocqueville's two-volume study of...sometimes even a prophet." WHO: ALEXIS de TOCQUEVILLE Political Philosopher of Democracy...WHEN: JULY 29, 2005 WHAT: ALEXIS de TOCQUEVILLE'S 200TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATORS...
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After Tocqueville: what are the prospects for global democracy when the American model is in such disrepair?(Ideas)(Alexis de Tocqueville)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The American Conservative; 9/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...historians have debated whether Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy...into the past. Presumably, Tocqueville expected the coming democratic...how long should we take Alexis de Tocqueville's "future" to be? There...
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Tocqueville, Alexis de
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805 – 1859 The French statesman and political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville was born July 29, 1805, in Paris and died April 16, 1859, in Cannes...
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Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...government written by a foreigner. Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Paris on July...Tocqueville's The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1893; trans. 1896; new...1959); Jacob P. Mayer, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biographical Study in...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alexis de Tocqueville , 1805-59, French politician and...commitment was to human freedom, Tocqueville believed that political democracy...American successes and failures. Tocqueville's other important works are L...
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Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de (1805–59) French statesman and political analyst. Sent to the USA in 1831 to study its penal system, de Tocqueville carried out a systematic survey of US political and social institutions...
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Tocqueville, Alexis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de (1805–59), French liberal politician and...important analysis of its subject. In his survey of American literature, Tocqueville finds a retardation attributable to the disrepute in which art and...
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