Delphi Collected Works of Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French nineteenth century political philosopher and historian. His landmark work ‘Democracy in America’ (1840) analyses the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. The treatise won Tocqueville an immediate reputation as an esteemed political scientist. In later years, he turned to the subject of the French Revolution and, after years of research, he published ‘The Old Regime and the Revolution’, exploring French society before the French Revolution, the so-called “Ancien Régime”, while investigating the forces that led to the 1789 Revolution. The book is now generally considered one of the major early historical works on the subject, which expands on Tocqueville’s main theory about the Revolution — the theory of continuity. This eBook presents Tocqueville’s collected (almost complete) works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tocqueville’s life and works* Concise introductions to the major texts* All the major essays, with individual contents tables* Features rare translations appearing for the first time in digital publishing* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Rare memoirs and letters* Features a brief biography* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genresThe BooksOn the Penitentiary System in the United States (1833)Democracy in America (1835)Report Made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies (1839)The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)A Fortnight in the Wilderness (1861)Miscellaneous EssaysThe LettersLetters of Alexis de Tocqueville (1861)The MemoirsMemoir of Alexis de Tocqueville (1861)Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1893)The BiographyBrief Alexis de Tocqueville (1911)