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The continuation of Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. With his monumental work The Old Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59)—best known for his classic Democracy in America—envisioned a multivolume philosophical study of the origins of modern France that would examine the implications of French history on the nature and development of democratic society. Volume I, which covered the eighteenth-century background to the Revolution, was published to great acclaim in 1856. On the continuation of this project, he wrote: ""When this Revolution has finished its work, [this volume] will show what that work really was, and what the new society which has come from that violent labor is, what the Revolution has taken away and what it has preserved from that old regime against which it was directed."" Tocqueville died in the midst of this work. Here in Volume II is all that he had completed, including the chapters he started for a work on Napoleon, notes and analyses he made in the course of researching and writing the first volume, and his notes on his preparation for his continuation. More than ever before, readers will be able to glean how Tocqueville's account of the Revolution would have come out, had he lived to finish it. This handsomely produced volume completes the set and is essential reading for anyone interested in the French Revolution or in Tocqueville's thought.

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Author:   Alexis de Tocqueville ,  François Furet ,  Françoise Mélonio ,  Alan S. Kahan
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9780226805344

ISBN 10:   0226805344
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   12 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword INTRODUCTION by François Furet and François Mélonio The Work in Progress The Revolution as Ideology Note on the Manuscript by Françoise Mélonio BOOK ONE The Outbreak of the Revolution CHAPTER ZERO CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN APPENDIX TO CHATERS THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FIVE BOOK TWO Notes Exceroted from Tocqueville's Papers concerning the History of the Revolution CHAPTER ZERO CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE BOOK THREE Napoleon CHAPTER ZERO Part One: The Convention and the Directory CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO APPENDIX Part Two: The Consulate and the Empire SECTION ONE SECTION TWO Excerpts from Tocqueville's Research Notes NOTES RELATING PRIMARILY TO BOOK ONE OF THE FIRST VOLUME Plans Botes on Germany Notes of Blackstone and England Notes on Russia NOTES RELATING PRIMARILY TO BOOK TWO OF THE FIRST VOLUME Notes Taken on Tours Notes on Turgot Notes on the Cahiers NOTES RELATING PRIMARILY TO BOOK THREE OF THE FIRST VOLUME Notes on Mirabeau the Elder Notes on the Physiocrats Notes and Variants, by Françoise Mélonio Index

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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works, Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. François Furet (1927-97) was the leading French historian of the Revolution and, according to the New York Times, ""one of the most influential French thinkers of the post-war era."" Françoise Mélonio is professor emeritus of Sorbonne-University and Doctor of Letters. She is the editor of Gallimard's critical edition of Tocqueville's complete works. Alan S. Kahan is professor of British Civilization at the University of Versailles/St. Quentin.

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