The Old Regime and the Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville
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The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Melonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.
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History, Causes, War, Political Systems, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, causes, Causes and character, Histoire, France, Ancien Régime, Causes et caractères, Franse Revolutie, Influence, Französische Revolution, French Revolution, Nonfiction, Revolution (France : 1789-1799) fast (OCoLC)fst01354514, Politics and government, Social conditions, Democracy, France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes., Revolution (France : 1789-1799) cct, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, Conditions sociales, Politique et gouvernement, 18e s., France, history, bourbons, 1589-1789, Revolutions, Political science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / GeneralPlaces
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Old Regime and the French Revolution
1999, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Doubleday
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L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution.
The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the so-called "Ancien Régime", and investigates the forces that caused the Revolution. It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution. In this book, de Tocqueville develops his main theory about the French revolution, the theory of continuity, in which he states that even though the French tried to dissociate themselves from the past and from the autocratic old regime, they eventually reverted to a powerful central government.
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