Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication. Written just before Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it was initially conceived simply as an exercise in candid personal reflection. In Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath, renowned historian Olivier Zunz and award-winning translator Arthur Goldhammer offer an entirely new translation of Tocqueville’s compelling book. The book has an interesting publishing history. Yielding to pressure from friends, Tocqueville finally approved its publication, although only after those portrayed in the work—most, unflatteringly—had died. After Tocqueville’s death, his grandnephew published a redacted version, but it was not until 1942 that French editors restored the potentially offensive passages. Goldhammer’s is the first English translation to do justice to Tocqueville’s original uncensored masterpiece of analytical description, stylistic subtlety, vivid social panorama, and incisive critique of political blundering and cowardice. Zunz’s introduction—and his addition of several of Tocqueville’s ancillary speeches, occasional texts, and letters—round out a unique volume that significantly enhances our understanding of the revolutionary period and Tocqueville’s role in it. In this new edition, Zunz highlights the persistent influence of the United States on the life and work of a man who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the New French Republic.
Recollections
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication. Written just before Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it was initially conceived simply as an exercise in candid personal reflection. In Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath, renowned historian Olivier Zunz and award-winning translator Arthur Goldhammer offer an entirely new translation of Tocqueville’s compelling book. The book has an interesting publishing history. Yielding to pressure from friends, Tocqueville finally approved its publication, although only after those portrayed in the work—most, unflatteringly—had died. After Tocqueville’s death, his grandnephew published a redacted version, but it was not until 1942 that French editors restored the potentially offensive passages. Goldhammer’s is the first English translation to do justice to Tocqueville’s original uncensored masterpiece of analytical description, stylistic subtlety, vivid social panorama, and incisive critique of political blundering and cowardice. Zunz’s introduction—and his addition of several of Tocqueville’s ancillary speeches, occasional texts, and letters—round out a unique volume that significantly enhances our understanding of the revolutionary period and Tocqueville’s role in it. In this new edition, Zunz highlights the persistent influence of the United States on the life and work of a man who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the New French Republic.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France. Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication. Written just before Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it was initially conceived simply as an exercise in candid personal reflection. In Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath, renowned historian Olivier Zunz and award-winning translator Arthur Goldhammer offer an entirely new translation of Tocqueville’s compelling book. The book has an interesting publishing history. Yielding to pressure from friends, Tocqueville finally approved its publication, although only after those portrayed in the work—most, unflatteringly—had died. After Tocqueville’s death, his grandnephew published a redacted version, but it was not until 1942 that French editors restored the potentially offensive passages. Goldhammer’s is the first English translation to do justice to Tocqueville’s original uncensored masterpiece of analytical description, stylistic subtlety, vivid social panorama, and incisive critique of political blundering and cowardice. Zunz’s introduction—and his addition of several of Tocqueville’s ancillary speeches, occasional texts, and letters—round out a unique volume that significantly enhances our understanding of the revolutionary period and Tocqueville’s role in it. In this new edition, Zunz highlights the persistent influence of the United States on the life and work of a man who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the New French Republic.
History of the French Revolution of 1848
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
Publisher: London : Bell
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher: London : Bell
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
History of the French Revolution of 1848
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Writers and Revolution
Author: Jonathan Beecher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.
An historical sketch of the French revolution of 1848
Author: French revolution, 1848
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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French Revolution of 1848
Author: Percy Bolingbroke St. John
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The French Revolution of 1848
Author: George G. Foster
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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French Revolution in 1848. The three days of February 1848
Author: Percy Bolingbroke SAINT JOHN
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Narrative of the French Revolution of 1848
Author: Walter Keating Kelly
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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French Revolution in 1848
Author: Percy Bolingbroke St. John
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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