Democracy in America: English Edition in Two Volumes - Softcover

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865978409 ISBN 13: 9780865978409

Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc, 2012

Synopsis

This English edition of "Democracy in America" features Eduardo Nolla's incisive notes to James Schleifer's English translation of the French text, with an extensive selection of early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials.

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About the Authors

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French writer and politician. With his friend Gustave Beaumont he spent nine months in America and with him published a study of the American penal system and its applicability to France. Tocqueville's fame was established by his De la Démocratie en Amérique, published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1839, was a member of the Constituent Assembly in 1848 and of the Legislative Assembly in 1849, was minister of foreign affairs in 1849, and was imprisoned in 1851 for his opposition to the coup d'état of Louis-Napoléon. At his death he had completed volume 1 of his L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856).

Eduardo Nolla is a Professor at the Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, and is the author of numerous books and articles on Tocqueville and the editor of The French Critical Edition of "Democracy in America".

James T Schleifer is Emeritus Dean of the Library and Professor of History at the College of New Rochelle and has been a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865978409
• ISBN 13: 9780865978409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1688
• Editor: Nolla Eduardo