Overview
- The first concise study giving full credit to the significance of the collaboration between Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont and its impact on their works
- Situates and contextualises the aristocratic liberalism of Tocqueville and Beaumont
- Provides insight into what remains to be learnt from the works of Tocqueville and Beaumont about the emergence of modern democracy
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About this book
This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context.
It accompanies the two friends to the US and analyses the fruitful encounter between the New and the Old World that was the result of that journey, particularly in relation to emerging Atlantic democracies and revolutions. This includes the hopes but also the problems and contradictions that they have come to represent. The book also follows Tocqueville and Beaumont to England, Ireland, and Algeria. It discusses their political careers and their engagement in the abolitionist movement, their fight for liberal social and political reform, as well as their futile attempt to rationalize French colonization in Algeria.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andreas Hess is Professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Sociology in Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tocqueville and Beaumont
Book Subtitle: Aristocratic Liberalism in Democratic Times
Authors: Andreas Hess
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69667-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69666-9Published: 26 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88818-7Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69667-6Published: 09 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 153
Topics: Social Theory, Sociological Theory, Historical Sociology, Political Sociology