Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Wydawnictwo: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4144-164-1

ISBN bez myślników: 9780141441641

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 336

Data wydania: 2008-05-29

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Wydawnictwo: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4191-973-7

ISBN bez myślników: 9780141919737

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 336

Data wydania: 2008-05-29

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

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Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville

Pierwsze wydanie: 2008-05-29

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime , with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.