Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) 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. — Excerpted from Alexis de Tocqueville on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

Works

• Democracy in America
  • Volume 1 (1835)
  • Volume 2 (1840)
• The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

Works about Alexis de Toqueville

• “Alexis de Tocqueville,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
• “Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Charles Maurice Clerel, Comte de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Count de,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.

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