Titles by Alexis de Tocqueville

1805 – 1859

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was an enormously influential French political philosopher, politician, and historian. After a trip to the U.S. in 1831 to observe the penal system he wrote Democracy in America (1835).

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He served as a member of parliament in the July Monarchy and the 1848 Revolution, writing an important memoir about the events of that upheaval. His last major work was a unfinished history of The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (1856).

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Titles

L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (7th ed. 1866)

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Democracy in America. English Edition. 2 vols.

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Democracy in America. English Edition. Vol. 1

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Democracy in America. English Edition. Vol. 2.

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Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, 4 vols. (LF ed. 2010)

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Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 1

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Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 2

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Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 3

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Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 4

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De la Démocratie en Amérique, 4 vols. (12th ed. 1848)

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De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 1

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De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 2

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De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 3

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De la Démocratie en Amérique, vol. 4

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Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, 2 vols. (1861)

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Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, vol. 1

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Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, vol. 2

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The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

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The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1896)

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Report made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies (1840)

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Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834-1859, 2 vols. (1872)

Nassau William Senior

Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834-1859, vol. 1 (1834-1851)

Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834-1859, vol. 2 (1834-1851)

Nassau William Senior

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