...Howard P. Segal Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Tocqueville and the Problem of Social Change: A Reconsideration Howard P. Segal Of the countless commentators upon the American scene since colo­ nial times, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) has undoubtedly en­ joyed the widest...

...James T. Schleifer Alexis de Tocqueville Describes the American Character: Two Previously Unpublished Portraits James T. Schleifer In March 1832 Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend and travel­ ing companion Gustave de Beaumont, returned to France after a nine-month voyage to America.1 Not until...

...Harold T. Parker The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville . Translated by de Mattos Alexander Teixera . Edited with an introduction by Mayer J. P. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1949 . Pp. xxvi , 332 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950...

...Henry Wasser Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE AND AMERICA HENRY WASSER NTEREST in Alexis de Tocqueville s observations on American culture recently expressed by students of American thought re­ flects an increasing perturbation concerning the American...

...Peter Augustine Lawler Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern Peter Augustine Lawler The United States was the first regime to be founded consciously on ra­ tional principles. Perhaps the most important of these modern prin­ ciples...

...Harold W. Stoke DE TOCQUEVILLE S APPRAISAL OF DEMOCRACY THEN AND NOW HAROLD W. STOKE EXACTLY a century ago, Gosselin, the Paris publisher, brought out a trial edition of the most profound work on democracy which, up to that time, had been written. The publisher was skep­ tical about the venture...

... of Alexis de Tocqueville, who argued that the rise of industry could lay the groundwork for a return to aristocracy, the article also considers how US jurisprudence since the early 1970s has proved Tocqueville somewhat prophetic. Today, we confront the accelerating rise of political wealth alongside...

...Katharine Harrison Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 A French Forecast of American Literature Katharine Harrison Waco, Texas Alexis de Tocqueville, with his friend Gustave de Beau­ mont, was sent to this country by the French government in 1831 to study the prison system...

... Press, 1958. Pp. xvii, 252. $4.95. After traveling over the United States with his lifelong friend, Alexis de Tocqueville, in 1831-1832, Gustave de Beaumont too wrote a book. His dealt with the problem of Negro-white relations in America, was first pub­ lished in Paris in 1835, and has never been...

...: the socialist Louis Blanc, and the liberal conserva­ tive De Tocqueville. For Louis Blanc, individualism served as a central concept in his optimistic philosophy of history. This men­ tality, according to him, had its origin in the Reformation and had resulted in great progress. Although he condemned its...

.... By Gustave de Beaumont. Translated by Barbara Chap­ man with an introduction by Alvis L. Tinnin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958. Pp. xvii, 252. $4.95. After traveling over the United States with his lifelong friend, Alexis de Tocqueville, in 1831-1832, Gustave de Beaumont too wrote a book. His...

.... In it he reflected upon his vivid perceptions during the revolutionary years of 1848 and 1849. The Paris insurrection of February, 1848, which forced the abdication of King Louis Philippe, also scattered the monarchical Chamber of Deputies of which de Tocqueville was a member. For nine years he had been...

..., a problem in governance to be studied, a riddle whose solution might be of practical political use to England.6 Harriet Martineau, like de Tocqueville, professed to see the republican future of mankind in the land to the west and even reported, with some qualification, that it worked. On the other hand...

... and the Spoiler s Art, A Quality of Mercy, and a collection of poems. The article here printed is a modified excerpt from a forthcoming book, Three Elegiac Prophets, studies of Burckhardt, Tocqueville, and Carlyle. 336 The South Atlantic Quarterly more than it did Tocqueville, who made a similar trip before be­...

.... Thus, in a famous passage in Democracy in America, Tocqueville admitted that the bourgeois principle of self-interest rightly understood, which should inform the moral life of free democratic men, is not . . . lofty and does not aim at mighty objects. The proper practice of this bourgeois...

... of the best essays this reviewer has read on the Federalists. It is appropriate that it should close with the words of Alexander Hamilton on the future of this country: A noble career lies before it. Harry R. Stevens. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville. Translated by Alexander Teixera de Mattos...

.... In these two volumes the editors maintain the high standard al­ ready established in twelve previously published volumes of The Col­ lected Works of John Stuart Mill. In them excellent introductory es­ says by Professors Brady and Robson are followed by Mill s essays on Tocqueville, his State of Society...

... Disney suggested as typical evidence.2 The sources of this paradigm (proto-paradigm would perhaps be bet­ ter) are not difficult to locate, and they are more than a little respectable. Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the patron saints of students of American culture. Much of Democracy in America now...

..., has become personal. The tentacles of this octopus are so tenacious that not even the French Revolution could shake off their grip. It was Alexis de Tocqueville who wrote in his Ancien Regime that: The Revolution did not, as is generally supposed, change the character of our civilisation...

... .” Politico , May 26 . Tocqueville Alexis de . 2003 . “Two Weeks in the Wilderness .” In Democracy in America—and Two Essays on America , translated by Bevan Gerald E. London : Penguin . Tocqueville Alexis de . 2006 . Democracy in America . Translated by Lawrence George...