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Historical Thought and Philosophy of History<\/p>\n

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The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one  which witnesses their first steps toward reform.<\/p>\n

The Old Regime and the French Revolution<\/u> (Harper & Brothers, 1856) at 214.<\/p>\n

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Aron, Raymond, Les grandes doctrines de sociologie historique<\/u>. Tome I, Montesquieu, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Alexis de Tocqueville, les sociologues et la revolution de 1848 (Paris: Centre de documentation universitaire, 1961)(Les cours de Sorbonne. Sociologie). Includes Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville, les sociologues et la revolution de 1848.<\/em><\/p>\n

Aron, Raymond, Id\u00e9es politiques et vision historique de Tocqueville,<\/em> 10(3) Revue fran<\/u>\u00e7aise de science politique <\/u>— (september 1960).<\/p>\n

Bass, Thomas Alden, Fiction and History: Essays on the Novels of Flaubert, Garcia Marquez, Coover, and Pynchon<\/u> (Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1980). Includes analysis and discussion of Tocqueville’s Recollections<\/u>, Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte<\/u> and Flaubert’s L’education sentimentale<\/u> as descriptions of the Revolution of 1848.<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis, Tocqueville et la Normandie<\/a><\/p>\n

Bergin, Martin J., Jr., Tocqueville as Historian: An Examination of the Influences on His Thought and His Approach to History<\/u> (Dissertation, Georgetown University, 1985). Two volumes.<\/p>\n

Borie, Jean, Chateaubriand, Tocqueville et la modernit\u00e9<\/em>, in Amicitia Scriptor. Litt\u00e9rature, Histoire des id\u00e9es, Philosophie. M\u00e9langes offerts \u00e0 Robert Mauzi<\/u> (Annie Becq, CHarles Porset, and Alain Mothu eds.; Paris: Honor\u00e9 Champion, 1998)(Champion-varia; 15).<\/p>\n

Brint, Michael E., Response to M. Lavroff<\/em>, 10 Tocqueville Review<\/u> 245-248 (1989\/1990). Reply to Dmitri Georges Lavroff, Les revolutions americaine et fran\u00e7aise dans l’oeuvre de Tocqueville<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Brogan, Hugh, Alexis de Tocqueville and the Coming of the American Civil War<\/em>, in American Studies: Essays in Honour of Marcus Cunliffe<\/u> 83-104 (Brian Holden Reid and John White, eds.; NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).<\/p>\n

Brown, Irene Coltman, The Historian as Philosopher: Tocqueville, Democracy & Revolution<\/em>, 31 History Today<\/u> 27-31 (September 1981).<\/p>\n

Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, The predictions of Hamilton and De Tocqueville<\/u> (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1887)(Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 5th ser.; 9).<\/p>\n

Chamberlin, William Henry, The Prophet de Tocqueville<\/em>, 10 Modern Age<\/u> 52-58 (1966).<\/p>\n

Chambrun, Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Pineton, Nos historiens: Guizot, Tocqueville, Thiers<\/u> (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1888). 110 pages.<\/p>\n

Chambrun, Joseph Dominique Aldebert de Pineton, Nos historiens: Guizot, Tocqueville, Thiers<\/u> (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1888). Second edition. 110 pages.<\/p>\n

Clive, John Leonard, Looking over a four-leaf clover: a quartet of nineteenth-century historians<\/em>, in Not by fact alone<\/u> 166-188 (NY: Knopf, 1989).<\/p>\n

Clive, John, Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover: A Quartet of Nineteenth-Century Historians<\/em>, 27 Critical Review<\/u> 66-83 (1985).<\/p>\n

Connell, Kathleen (Mother M. Stephen, R.S.H.M.), Alexis De Tocqueville: Witness and commentator of Western Revolution<\/u> (Master’s thesis, St. John’s University, 1963).<\/p>\n

Costantini, Robert, L’image en France de l’\u00e9tat de New-York entre 1776 et 1861: Th\u00e8mes et sources<\/em>, 4(1) French-American Review<\/u> 36-41 (1980).<\/p>\n

Cox, Marvin R., Tocqueville’s Bourgeois Revolution<\/em>, 19(3) Historical Reflections\/Reflexions historiques<\/u> 279-307 (Fall 1993).<\/p>\n

Damien, Roger, Tocquevilles Reise in die Franzosische Revolution: Oder, eine kopernikanische Wende der politischen Wissenschaft<\/em>, 38(2\/3) Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Ernest-Moritz-Arndt-Universit\u00e4t-Greifswald: Gesellschaftwissenschaftliche Reihe<\/u> 35 (1989).<\/p>\n

Deane, Seamus, Burke and Tocqueville: New Worlds, New Beings,<\/em> 31(1) boundary2<\/u> 1-23 (Spring 2004).<\/p>\n

Delevall\u00e9e, Anne-Sophie, Tocqueville et le processus democratique: une approche probabiliste de l’histoire<\/u> (Paris: 1985)(Memoire DEA: Philosophie du droit\/Paris 2; 1985).<\/p>\n

Douthwaite, Julia V., The Uses of History in Tocqueville\u2019s Souvenirs<\/u> and Flaubert\u2019s L\u2019education sentimentale<\/u><\/em> 4 RLA: Romance Languages Annual<\/u> 40-46 (1992).<\/p>\n

Drescher, Seymour Irving, “Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare”: Tocqueville’s Most Neglected Prognosis<\/em>, 64(3) Journal of Modern History<\/u> 429-454 (September 1992).<\/p>\n

Drew, Stacey L., The Second Republic: a comparative analysis of the writings of Marx and Tocqueville concerning France, 1848-1852<\/u> (Bachelor’s thesis, Drew University, 1992).<\/p>\n

Drolet, Michel, Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for the Old Regime and the French Revolution<\/u><\/em>, 18(2) French History<\/u> 241-244 (2004).<\/p>\n

Durr, Emil, Die Demokratie in der Schweiz nach der Auffassung von Alexis<\/u> Tocqueville<\/u> (Basel: S. n., 1925).<\/p>\n

Estrada, Fernando, and Jos\u00e9 Daniel Parra, Labyrinth of Modernity<\/em>, CUADERNOS DEL CIPE, Facultad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales, 2009. On the Old Regime and the French Revolution<\/u><\/em>. In Spanish.<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

Gannett, Robert Tileston,Jr., Tocqueville Unveiled: A Historian and Sources in L’ancien regime<\/em><\/u> (Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1998).<\/p>\n

Gannett, Robert Tileston, Jr., Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution<\/em><\/u> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).<\/p>\n

Gargan, Edward T., The formation of Tocqueville’s historical thought<\/em>, 24(1) Review of Politics<\/u> 48-61 (January 1962).<\/p>\n

Gargan, Edward T., The formation of Tocqueville’s historical thought<\/u> (Notre Dame, IN? : University of Notre Dame Press? 1962). Offprint of the article in Review of Politics<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gargan, Edward T., Tocqueville and the problem of historical prognosis<\/em>, 68(2) American Historical Review<\/u> 332-345 (January 1963).<\/p>\n

Grudzinska-Gross, Irena, Pietno rewolucji: Custine, Tocqueville i wyobraznia romantyczna<\/u> (Warszawa: Wydawn. Naukowe PWN, 1995). Translation of The Scar of Revolution<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Grudzinska-Gross, Irena, The scar of revolution : Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination<\/u> (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).<\/p>\n

Guizot, Tocqueville, Thiers<\/u> (2d ed.; Paris: Calmann Levy, 1888). Includes discussion of Tocqueville, Marie-Joseph-Louis-Adolphe Thiers, Fran\u00e7ois Guizot.<\/p>\n

Harmon, Jonathan, De la tyrannie en Am\u00e9rique: \u00e9tude des sources de l’interpr\u00e9tation pessimiste de l’oeuvre de Tocqueville dans les sciences sociales am\u00e9ricaines d’apr\u00e8s-guerre<\/u> (Master\u2019s thesis, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, 2008).<\/p>\n

Hochberg, Leonard J., Reconciling History With Sociology? Strategies of Inquiry in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America<\/u> and The Old Regime and the French Revolution<\/u>, <\/em>7 Journal of Classical Sociology<\/u> 23-54 (2007).<\/p>\n

Hoeges, Dirk, Alexis de Tocqueville–Literatur im Zeitalter der Gleichheit<\/em>, 1982 Siegener Hochschulbl\u00e4tter<\/u> 44-55.<\/p>\n

Hoeges, Dirk, Guizot und Tocqueville, <\/em>218(2) Historische Zeitschrift<\/u> 338-353 (1974).<\/p>\n

Hoeges, Dirk, Der vergessene Rest. Tocqueville, Chateaubriand und der Subjektwechsel in der franz\u00f6sischen Geschichtsschreibung<\/em>, 238 Historische Zeitschrift<\/u> 287-310 (1984).<\/p>\n

Kahan, Alan Sidney, Tocqueville’s two revolutions<\/em>, 46(4) Journal of the History of Ideas<\/u> 585-597 (1989).<\/p>\n

Kale, Steven D., Who was responsible for the centralized state? The Legitimists and Tocqueville’s Ancien R\u00e9gime<\/em>, 16 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History<\/u> 266-275 (1989). Commentary by Ted W. Margadant.<\/p>\n

Kraynak, Robert P., Alexis de Tocqueville on divine providence and historical progress<\/em>, in Political philosophy and the human soul: essays in memory of Allan Bloom<\/u> (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995).<\/p>\n

Larat, P., Les historiens du XIXe Siecle<\/u> (Paris: Foucher, 1946–)(Expliquez-moi; Collection “Litt\u00e9rature). Includes section on Tocqueville.<\/p>\n

Lavroff, Dmitri Georges, Les revolutions americaine et fran\u00e7aise dans l’oeuvre de Tocqueville<\/em>, 9 Tocqueville Review<\/u> 5-13 (1987\/1988). “The American and French revolutions in Tocqueville’s work.”<\/p>\n

Lawler, Peter Augustine, Tocqueville on Socialism and History<\/em>, 21(2) Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy<\/u> 181 (Winter 1994).<\/p>\n

Lawyer, John E., Jr., Tocqueville on the Religious Foundations of Democracy<\/em>, 42(4) American Benedictine Review<\/u> 418 (December 1991).<\/p>\n

Lieva, Raul, La revolucion francesa y sus hombres de letras<\/em>, 192 Cuadernos Americanos<\/u> 127-156 (1974).<\/p>\n

Linares, Filadelfo, Die Revolution bei Tocqueville und Marx<\/u> (Percha am Starnberger See: R. S. Schulz, 1977).<\/p>\n

Maza, Sarah, Politics, Culture and the Origins of the French Revolution<\/em>, 61(4) Journal of Modern History<\/u> 704-723 (December 1989).<\/p>\n

Mellon, Stanley, Tocqueville as historian of the French Revolution<\/u> (Albany, NY: State University, 1989). Lecture given March 9, 1989: ninth annual Phi Alpha Theta Distinguished Lecture on History at the University at SUNY–Albany.<\/em><\/p>\n

Melonio, Fran\u00e7oise, De Tocqueville \u00e0 Taine<\/em>, 258 Magazine Litt\u00e9raire<\/u>, 59-61 (October 1988).<\/p>\n

Mitchell, Harvey, Individual choice and the structures of history: Alexis de Tocqueville as historian reappraised<\/u> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).<\/p>\n

Ndzimba-Ganyanad, Y., Anthropologie historique d\u2019Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u> (Dissertation, Universit\u00e9 de Picardie, 1997).<\/p>\n

Orr, Linda, French romantic histories of the Revolution: Michelet, Blanc, Tocqueville–A Narrative<\/em>, 1989 Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation<\/u> 123-142 (Special issue).<\/p>\n

Orr, Linda, Headless History<\/u> (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).<\/p>\n

Orr, Linda, Stael, Michelet and Tocqueville<\/em>, in A New Philosophy of History<\/u> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).<\/p>\n

Orr, Linda, Tocqueville et l’histoire incomprehensible: L’Ancien Regime et la Revolution<\/u><\/em>, 29(49) Poetique<\/u> 51 (February 1982). Translated by Gilles Declercq.<\/p>\n

Palmer, Robert Roswell, The two Tocquevilles and two kinds of history<\/em>, 131(4) Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society<\/u> 341-347 (1987).<\/p>\n

Palmer, Robert Roswell, The two Tocquevilles on France and America<\/em>, 12(34) Revue Fran\u00e7aise d’\u00c9tudes Am\u00e9ricaines<\/u> 565-576 (1987).<\/p>\n

Petrequin, Paul, Friedrich Nietzsche and Alexis De Tocqueville on the possibility<\/u> of history<\/u> (Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997).<\/p>\n

Pitts, Jennifer, Republicanism, Liberalism, and Empire in Post-Revolutionary France,<\/em> Paper delivered May 22, 2009, Stanford University.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Pozzi, Regina, Tocqueville e la storia (non scritta) della Rivoluzione francese<\/em>, 41 Storia della Storiografia<\/u>, 20-44 (2002). <\/p>\n

Pozzi, Regina, Tocqueville e la storia (non scritta) della rivoluzione francese<\/em>, 7 Cromohs<\/u>, 1-19 (2002).  
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Secretan, Philibert, Alexis de Tocqueville: Pronostic et proph<\/em>\u00e8tie<\/em>, 34(2) Esprit<\/u> 246-258 (1966).<\/p>\n

Spears, Monroe Kirklyndorf, Countries of the mind: literary explorations<\/u> (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992). Includes Tocqueville in 1989<\/em>, at 39-51.<\/p>\n

Taylor, Joan, Alexis de Tocqueville<\/em>, in The Historian at Work<\/u> (John Cannon, London: Boston, Allen & Unwin, 1980).<\/p>\n

Winthrop, Delba, Tocqueville\u2019s \u201cOld Regime:\u201d Political History,<\/em> 43(1) The Review of Politics<\/u> 88-111 (Jan. 1981).<\/p>\n

Woito, Robert Severin, Types of historical inevitability: a study of the contextual judgements of Thucydides, Tocqueville, Engels, and Acton<\/u> (Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1975).<\/p>\n

Zetterbaum, Marvin, Tocqueville: Neutrality and the Use of History,<\/em> 58(3) The American Political Science Review<\/u> 611-621 (Sept. 1964).<\/p>\n

Zunz, Oliver, Tocqueville and the Writing of American History in the Twentieth Century: A Comment,<\/em> 7 Tocqueville Review 131-135 (1985\/1986).<\/p>\n\n

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