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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexis de Tocqueville
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A liberal whose deepest commitment was to human freedom, Tocqueville believed that political democracy and social equality would, inevitably, replace the aristocratic institutions of Europe. He analyzed the American attempt to have both liberty and equality in terms of what lessons Europe could learn from American successes and failures. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press
L’Ancien Régime et la révolution (1856; tr. 1856), which stressed the continuance after the French Revolution of many trends that had begun before,
Recollections (1893; tr. by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1896; complete ed. by J. P. Mayer, 1949)
Democracy in America (1840)
The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour Exploring Democracy in America
The Alexis de Tocqueville Internet Archive
See biography by J. P. Mayer (tr. 1960, repr. 1966); studies by E. T. Gargan (1965), M. Zetterbaum (1967), S. I. Drescher (1968), R. Boesche (1987), L. E. Shiner (1988), S. A. Hadari (1989), and S. Wolin (2001).
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY SSR Prelim Summary Archive
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Garden City NY: Anchor Books, 1969, vol. 1, pt. 1 (chs. 4, 5), pt. 2 (chs. 1, 2, 4): pp. 58-98, 173-79, 189-95.
