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Alexis de Tocqueville - Wikipedia. Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville ( / ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊkvɪl / TO (H)K-vil, [7] French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), [8] was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian.
Jul 19, 2024 · Alexis de Tocqueville (born July 29, 1805, Paris, France—died April 16, 1859, Cannes) was a political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. (1835–40), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century.
Nov 9, 2009 · French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he...
Alexis de Tocqueville, (born July 29, 1805, Paris, France—died April 16, 1859, Cannes), French political scientist, historian, and politician. Born into an aristocratic family, he entered government service by choice.
Jun 8, 2018 · Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) lived at the time of two revolutions, the democratic and the industrial; their impact upon the traditional order furnished him with the major themes of his scholarly work. Tension between traditional and modern values dominated Tocqueville’s life and writings.
The two-volume work Democracy in America ( 1835, 1840) grew out of a nine-month trip to the United States early in the career of a distinguished French statesman and writer, Alexis de Tocqueville.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French philosopher and statesman. Belonging to a Norman aristocratic family that traced its origins to the Battle of Hastings (1066), Tocqueville’s parents barely escaped the guillotine in the terror of the French Revolution.
Aug 28, 2018 · Alexis de Tocqueville (b. 1805–d. 1859) was a French politician and writer, considered variously as historian, sociologist, and political theorist. His two most well-known works are Democracy in America (2 vols., 1835–1840), and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was an enormously influential French political philosopher, politician, and historian. After a trip to the U.S. in 1831 to observe the penal system he wrote Democracy in America (1835).
Jul 19, 2024 · Alexis de Tocqueville - French Historian, Sociologist: Tocqueville’s reputation in the 19th century reached its high point during the decade following his death as the great European powers accommodated themselves to universal suffrage. He died just at the onset of a revival of liberalism in France.
