Tocqueville and Beyond: Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien

by Robert M. Schwartz

This collection of essays by French and American historians testifies to the enduring importance of Alexis de Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the French Revolution, first published in 1856. Highly original in its day and now recognized as a classic, The Old Regime has since the 1970s stimulated considerable research and improved our understanding of the French Old Regime. The essays in Tocqueville & Beyond join this trend, drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492335
• ISBN13: 9781611492330
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 300 Pages