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Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Regime and the Revolution. Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues sich as prison reform, pauperism and the plight of abandoned children. Making extensive use of Tocqueville's voluminous correspondence with his French, English and American contemporaries, this innovative study stresses the social, political and intellectual context within which these works were written and shows the extent to which they were central to the composition of Tocqueville's well known political and historical works. It is the first study to analyse and link Tocqueville's reflections on political economy with his social investigations, and reveals an important development in his thinking, away from an early esteem for J.-B. Say's liberal political economy to a thorough appreciation of Christian political economy. This was to have profound implications for the evolution of his thoughts on democracy.

Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: SOCIETY, ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY The American Journey and Tocqueville's Intellectual Awakening Embracing Liberal Political Economy and then Rejecting it: Tocqueville's Reading of Say and Malthus Equality, Liberty and the Problem of Self-interest: Democracy in America (1835) Legitimism and Political Economy: The Influence of Villeneuve-Bargemont PART II: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL REFORM Tocqueville and Beaumont on Prison Reform The Investigations into the Causes of Poverty and the Ways to Remedy it The Investiagions into Abandoned Children PART III: DEMOCRACY AND REVOLUTION Democracy and the Threats to Liberty: Democracy in America (1840) Administrative Centralisation and the Threats to Liberty: The Composition of The Ancien Regime and the Revolution Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
MICHAEL DROLET lectures in the History of Political Thought at the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Review :
'Drolet has provided an admirably focused account of Tocqueville's central dilemma.' - Ceri Crossley, Modern & Contemporary France


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230509641
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • ISBN-10: 0230509649
  • Publisher Date: 12 Aug 2003
  • Language: English


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