The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.

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The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.

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The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text

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The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226843353
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 09/23/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 459
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Alan S. Kahan is an associate professor in the history department at Florida International University and the author of Aristocratic Liberalism and Liberalism in Nineteeth-Century Europe.

Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword


INTRODUCTION

by François Furet and Françoise Mélonio

The Genesis of The Old Regime and the Revolution

The Structure of the Work: Book One

The Structure of the Work: Book Two

The Structure of the Work: Book Three

The Evolution of the Work

Tocqueville's Files, Manuscripts, and Proofs

Note on This Edition


Preface

BOOK ONE

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five


BOOK TWO

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve


BOOK THREE

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Appendix


Tocqueville's Notes

Notes and Variants

Glossary

Index

What People are Saying About This

Gertrude Himmelfarb

A new translation and annotated edition of Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the Revolution would be a noteworthy publiching event on its own. The addition of a substantial essay by Francois Furet, France's preeminent historian, and Francoise Melonio, the editor of Tocqueville's collected works, makes it a major intellectual event as well. The Old Regime now takes its rightful place next to Democracy in America among the seminal documents of our time—as much as of Tocqueville's.

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