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Bookmark or Share- Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's IntroductionMarch 06, 2012. Photo caption. In 1831 an ambitious and unusually perceptive twenty-five-year-old French aristocrat visited the United States. Alexis de Tocqueville’s official purpose was to study the American penal system, but his real interest was America herself.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America, Summary & Beliefs - HISTORYFrench sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he...
- Alexis de Tocqueville - WikipediaAlexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (/ ˈ t ɒ k v ɪ l, ˈ t oʊ k v ɪ l / TO(H)K-vil, French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), usually known as just Tocqueville, was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian.
- Tocqueville’s Political Thought - Political Science - Oxford BibliographiesAlexis de Tocqueville (b. 1805–d. 1859) was a French politician and writer, considered variously as historian, sociologist, and political theorist. His two most well-known works are Democracy in America (2 vols., 1835–1840), and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
- de Tocqueville, Alexis - Oxford Research EncyclopediasKathryn W. Kemp. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.579. Published online: 26 July 2017. Subjects. North American Literatures. The two-volume work Democracy in America ( 1835, 1840) grew out of a nine-month trip to the United States early in the career of a distinguished French statesman and writer, Alexis de Tocqueville.
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