The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226805290
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226805306
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0141919736
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : France
ISBN : 9780486476025
This1856 volume constitutes one of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution. It explores the rebellion's origins and consequences, offering timeless insights into the pursuit of individual and political freedom."
Author : Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271046171
Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1526148366
According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
Author : Alexis De Tocqueville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 0226805336
Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0199291209
An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Europe