Tocqueville Unveiled
Subtitle: The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780226281087
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Historiography; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Europe - France; Ancien regime et la Revolution; History / France; Tocqueville, Alexis de; General; 1805-1859; 1805-1859.; Ancien regime et la Revoluti; Ancien râegime et la Râevolution; Sources; Tocqueville, Alexis de,
First sentence: In December 1838, revising drafts for volume 2 of his Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville thought to drop the persona he had so effectively cultivated in volume I, which melded political nonpartisanship with benign neglect of his academic peers.