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The result is a subtle yet dramatic portrait of the strategic stakes of colonial governance in the land that would become Haiti. A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville s influential look at the origins of modern France In this penetrating study, Alexis de Tocqueville considers the French Revolution in the context of France s history. Just as the first Republic had fallen to Napoleon and the second had succumbed to his nephew Napoleon III, he feared that all future revolutions might experience the same fate, forever imperiling the development of democracy in France.

One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions.

Author : John G. German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society.

The achievement of this major contribution to the new History of Germany is to do justice to the variety and multiplicity of the period without foundering under the wealth of information it conveys. This comprehensive history looks at the ancien regime of France, the old power structure that remained in place until it was swept away by the French Revolution.

From the preface:"In this volume, as in those preceding it and in those to come, there will be found only the history of Public Authorities. Others will write that of diplomacy, of war, of the finances, of the Church; my subject is a limited one.

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This means that the book will need to be read in parallel with the readings in part 2 , and that there will be sections which do not corres pond to any part of the course, but which will nonethel ess be useful as background. Edmund Jephcott NY: Pantheon, , Burns and M. Goldie Cambri dge: Cambridge University Press, , Jean Stewart Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, , ; Wight New York: P. Collier, , Lafuma Paris: Seuil, , Solnon, Sources d'histoire de la France moderne Paris: Larousse, , Oxford: O xford University Press, , Solnon, ed.