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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.
Jun 7, 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.
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.
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.
Jun 7, 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.
