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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Mai 2008
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 / 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 / c 1500 onwards to present day / C 1700 To C 1800 / c 1800 to c 1900 / France / HISTORY / Revolutionary / Modern history to 20th century# c 1700 to c 1900 / Revolutionary groups & movements / Revolutionary groups and movements / Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
ISBN:	9780141441641
EAN-Code:	9780141441641
Verlag:	Random House N.Y.
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Penguin Classics
Dimensionen:	H 196 mm / B 126 mm / D 24 mm
Gewicht:	240 gr
Seiten:	336
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Inhalt:

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.