Research Catalog

Title

Recollections : the French Revolution of 1848 and its Aftermath / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited by Olivier Zunz ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zunz, Olivier
• Goldhammer, Arthur

Description

xl, 349 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This entirely new translation of Tocqueville's 'Souvenirs'--his posthumously published, extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 revolution in France--will be the definitive English edition of the work for decades to come. Tocqueville's most polished literary text, full of bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, it was never intended for publication. Written immediately after the climax of Tocqueville's political career and just before Louis Bonaparte's 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it is an exercise in candid personal reflection. Yielding to pressure from friends, Tocqueville approved its publication, but only after all characters portrayed in it--mostly unflatteringly--had died. In 1893, more than three decades after Tocqueville's death, his nephew published an expurgated version. Only in 1964 did French editors restore the potentially offensive passages. A selection of speeches, occasional texts, notes, and letters add significantly to our understanding of the revolutionary period and Tocqueville's role in it. His letters range from personal concerns to all the important political issues of the day. They illuminate not only the French conflict but the powerful reaction taking hold in Germany and Italy. They also document Tocqueville's only serious intellectual encounter with socialism and its theoreticians (Cabet, Proudhon, and Fourier, but not Marx). Finally, the edition evinces the continuing influence the United States on Tocqueville, who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the new French Republic"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Souvenirs. English

Alternative Title

Souvenirs.

Subject

• Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
• Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 > Political and social views
• February Revolution (France : 1848)
• 1848-1852
• Historians > France > Biography
• Historians
• Political and social views
• France > History > February Revolution, 1848
• France > History > Second Republic, 1848-1852
• France > History > February Revolution, 1848 > Sources
• France > History > Second Republic, 1848-1852 > Sources
• France

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-1032

ISBN

• 9780813939018
• 0813939011
• 9780813939025 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016006703

OCLC

947953942

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859, author.

Title

Recollections : the French Revolution of 1848 and its Aftermath / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited by Olivier Zunz ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publisher

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1848-1852

Added Author

Zunz, Olivier, editor.

Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-1032