{"product_id":"the-tocqueville-reader-a-life-in-letters-and-politics-blackwell-readers-9780631215462","title":"The Tocqueville Reader A Life in Letters and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville is an ancestor of modern social science and one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century. This reader includes his major writing, travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This fine volume should become the standard source of Tocqueville's writings in the Anglophone world. Now that ideologues are trying to highjack Tocqueville for their own partisan purposes, it is particularly valuable to have this splendid collection that reflects the depth of Tocqueville's insights into democracy, liberty, and the delicate balance between them on both sides of the Atlantic. By including the best of Tocqueville's work on a wide range of topics and providing lucid commentary, Zunz and Kahan offer readers an accurate, historically grounded understanding of one of the 19th century's most brilliant thinkers.” James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A collection like this has been needed for a long time. It is accessible, broad-ranging, ably translated and superbly edited. Anyone who appreciates the genius of this greatest of French political writers will find it both a handy reference, and a source of delightful surprises.” \u003ci\u003eDavid A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Highly Recommended. General readers, and lower-division undergraduates and above.\" \u003ci\u003eP.Coby, Smith College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Tocqueville Reader... is a splendid selection from Tocqueville's works that reflects the originality and depth of his ideas on democracy, liberty and modern society\" \u003ci\u003eAurelian Craiutu, Indiana University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Discovery of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustration: Map of the American Voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Travel Letters: First Impressions of America and Important Sketches of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, 1831.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Excerpts from American Notebooks: Tocqueville's Conversations with His American Informants; Travel Impressions on the Road.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Volume One of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, 1835.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Great Britain, France, and the United States:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Discovery of England, Poverty, Pauperism, and Social Policy, 1835-1837.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Ambitions, Marriage, and Tocqueville's Views of His Own Brand of Liberalism, 1833-1840.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Volume Two of Democracy in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Years in Politics:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Tocqueville's Political Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Tocqueville the Colonialist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Tocqueville in 1848.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Tocqueville Retires from Political Life and Returns to Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Return to The Old Regime and the Revolution:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Regime and the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e Volume One.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Regime and the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e Volume Two.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Last days.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on Sources and Translations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403427684695,"sku":"9780631215462","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631215462.jpg?v=1730483441","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tocqueville-reader-a-life-in-letters-and-politics-blackwell-readers-9780631215462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}