Tocqueville and Beyond: Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. BienRobert M. Schwartz, Robert Alan Schneider University of Delaware Press, 2003 - 300 pagine 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. Tocqueville and Beyond joins this trend to offer both an appreciation and critique of Tocqueville's remarkable book. From the wide-ranging perspectives of privileged nobles, men of letters, rural life, and the evolution of centralization and liberty in France as well as the Dutch Republic, these essays attest to the continuing significance of Tocqueville's classic study. |
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Publications of David D Bien | 15 |
Introduction | 21 |
Tocqueville and the Old Regime | 37 |
EighteenthCentury France Rethinks Nobility | 52 |
Nobility and Monarchical Construction in the Eighteenth Century | 71 |
Nobles Aristocrats and the Origins of the French Revolution | 86 |
Property and Aristocracy in Modern France | 111 |
The Intendant of La Rochelle and Protestant Policy at the Revocation | 155 |
Tocqueville and Rural Politics in EighteenthCentury France | 172 |
Tocquevilles Critique of the Enlightenment in Historical Perspective | 192 |
Monarchical Centralization and the Birth of Social Sciences Voyagers and Statisticians in Search of France at the End of the Eighteenth Century | 226 |
The Old Régime and the Dutch Revolutions | 243 |
Bibliography | 267 |
List of Contributors | 290 |
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