Old Regime & the Revolution V 1 (The Old Regime and the Revolution) - Hardcover

Tocqueville, Alexis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226805298 ISBN 13: 9780226805290

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

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 it 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, Francoise Melonio and the late Francois Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan S. Kahan is associate professor in the history department at Florida International University and the author of Aristocratic Liberalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226805298
• ISBN 13: 9780226805290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 460