Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412832780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Recollections: the French Revolution of 1848
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412832780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Recollections
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Recollections
Author: Alexis De TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN: 9781315128146
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Tocqueville was not only an active participant in the French Revolution of 1848, he was also a deeply perceptive observer with a detached attitude of mind. He saw the pitfalls of the course his country was taking more clearly than any of his contemporaries, including Karl Marx. Recollections was first written for self-clarification. It is both an exciting, candid, behind-the-scenes account of what actually happened during those tumultuous months and a remarkably shrewd analysis that has become an accurate forecast of future societies wrestling with the dilemma of synthesizing equality and freedom. Thus the book has a relevance that extends beyond France, to our own country and others, a relevance that is explored in J.P. Mayer's new introduction. Out of print in English for several years, Recollections is presented here in a translation based on the definitive French edition of 1964. It captures the wit and subtlety of mind that have made this book one of the most popular of all Tocqueville's works. Tocqueville's own comments, which he wrote into the manuscript, including his variants, are given, and the editors have added explanatory notes."--Provided by publisher.
Recollections
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351494473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Tocqueville was not only an active participant in the French Revolution of 1848, he was also a deeply perceptive observer with a detached attitude of mind. He saw the pitfalls of the course his country was taking more clearly than any of his contemporaries, including Karl Marx. Recollections was first written for self-clarification. It is both an exciting, candid, behind-the-scenes account of what actually happened during those tumultuous months and a remarkably shrewd analysis that has become an accurate forecast of future societies wrestling with the dilemma of synthesizing equality and freedom. Thus the book has a relevance that extends beyond France, to our own country and others, a relevance that is explored in J.P. Mayer's new introduction.Out of print in English for several years, Recollections is presented here in a translation based on the definitive French edition of 1964. It captures the wit and subtlety of mind that have made this book one of the most popular of all Tocqueville's works. Tocqueville's own comments, which he wrote into the manuscript, including his variants, are given, and the editors have added explanatory notes.
Recollections
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Recollections
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780813939018
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This entirely new translation of Tocqueville's 'Souvenirs'--his posthumously published, extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France--will be the definitive English edition of the work for decades to come. Tocqueville's most polished literary text, full of bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, it was never intended for publication. Written immediately after the climax of Tocqueville's political career and just before Louis Bonaparte's 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it is an exercise in candid personal reflection. Yielding to pressure from friends, Tocqueville approved its publication, but only after all characters portrayed in it--mostly unflatteringly--had died. In 1893, more than three decades after Tocqueville's death, his nephew published an expurgated version. Only in 1964 did French editors restore the potentially offensive passages. A selection of speeches, occasional texts, notes, and letters add significantly to our understanding of the revolutionary period and Tocqueville's role in it. His letters range from personal concerns to all the important political issues of the day. They illuminate not only the French conflict but the powerful reaction taking hold in Germany and Italy. They also document Tocqueville's only serious intellectual encounter with socialism and its theoreticians (Cabet, Proudhon, and Fourier, but not Marx). Finally, the edition evinces the continuing influence the United States on Tocqueville, who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the new French Republic"--Provided by publisher.
A Year of Revolutions
Author: Fanny LewaldPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571810991
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example. Written from a woman's perspective, this first-hand account of the revolutions in both Germany and France must be considered a unique document. It is further enhanced by her detailed description of the Frankfurt Parliament and her relationships with many of the prominent politicians and thinkers of that eventful period.
A Year of Revolutions
Author: Hanna Ballin LewisPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782380434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example. Written from a woman's perspective, this first-hand account of the revolutions in both Germany and France must be considered a unique document. It is further enhanced by her detailed description of the Frankfurt Parliament and her relationships with many of the prominent politicians and thinkers of that eventful period.
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian. This book is a private journal regarding the French Revolution of 1848, which de Tocqueville never intended to be published.