{"product_id":"the-tocqueville-reader-isbn-9780631215462","title":"The Tocqueville Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tocqueville Reader\u003c\/i\u003e includes not only Tocqueville's major writing but also travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. It includes twenty-nine pieces never before translated into English, and a wide-ranging editorial introduction that gives an account of Tocqueville's life as a politician and inspirations as a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e  Introduction. \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Discovery of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustration: Map of the American Voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Travel Letters: First Impressions of America and Important Sketches of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, 1831.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Excerpts from American Notebooks: Tocqueville's Conversations with His American Informants; Travel Impressions on the Road.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Volume One of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, 1835.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Great Britain, France, and the United States:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Discovery of England, Poverty, Pauperism, and Social Policy, 1835-1837.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Ambitions, Marriage, and Tocqueville's Views of His Own Brand of Liberalism, 1833-1840.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Volume Two of Democracy in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Years in Politics:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Tocqueville's Political Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Tocqueville the Colonialist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Tocqueville in 1848.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Tocqueville Retires from Political Life and Returns to Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Return to The Old Regime and the Revolution:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Regime and the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e Volume One.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Regime and the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e Volume Two.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Last days.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on Sources and Translations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors.\u003c\/p\u003e  “This fine volume should become the standard source of Tocqueville's writings in the Anglophone world. Now that ideologues are trying to highjack Tocqueville for their own partisan purposes, it is particularly valuable to have this splendid collection that reflects the depth of Tocqueville's insights into democracy, liberty, and the delicate balance between them on both sides of the Atlantic. By including the best of Tocqueville's work on a wide range of topics and providing lucid commentary, Zunz and Kahan offer readers an accurate, historically grounded understanding of one of the 19th century's most brilliant thinkers.” James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A collection like this has been needed for a long time. It is accessible, broad-ranging, ably translated and superbly edited. Anyone who appreciates the genius of this greatest of French political writers will find it both a handy reference, and a source of delightful surprises.” \u003ci\u003eDavid A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Highly Recommended. General readers, and lower-division undergraduates and above.\" \u003ci\u003eP.Coby, Smith College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Tocqueville Reader... is a splendid selection from Tocqueville's works that reflects the originality and depth of his ideas on democracy, liberty and modern society\" \u003ci\u003eAurelian Craiutu, Indiana University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eOlivier Zunz\u003c\/b\u003e is Commonwealth Professor of History at the University of Virginia and president of the Tocqueville Society. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Changing Face of Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), \u003ci\u003eMaking America Corporate\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), and \u003ci\u003eWhy the American Century?\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eReliving the Past\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Landscape of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eSocial Contracts under Stress\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan S. Kahan\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAristocratic Liberalism, The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville\u003c\/i\u003e (1992, 2001), and the translator of Tocqueville's \u003ci\u003eThe Old Regime and the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (vol. 1: 1998, vol. 2: 2001).\u003c\/p\u003e Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century, and yet this is the first comprehensive collection of his written work. Born to an aristocratic family, he was consumed by the notion of democracy and traveled widely throughout the world, mainly in America, to understand it. He is the celebrated writer of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Regime and the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as important essays on such subjects as poverty, colonialism, and socialism. \u003ci\u003eThe Tocqueville Reader\u003c\/i\u003e includes not only his major writing but also travel notes, letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. The book includes twenty-nine pieces never before translated into English, and a wide-ranging editorial introduction that gives an account of Tocqueville's life as a politician and inspirations as a writer. In this one-of-a-kind collection, students of American and European history and social thought, as well as general readers, will find a portrait of a fascinating personality and a giant of liberal thinking.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990354673893,"sku":"NP9780631215462","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631215462.jpg?v=1761787484","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-tocqueville-reader-isbn-9780631215462","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}