Assessments and Interpretations
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Abbott, James, Whither Tocqueville in American Sociology? 38(1) American Sociologist 60-77 (March 2007). On the diminishing influence of Tocqueville on sociologists.
Audier, Serge, Machiavel, Tocqueville, Marx, dans la pensée politique française depuis l’entre-deux guerres (Dissertation, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 2000).
Ajzenstadt, Janet, French Canada and the Liberal Theory of Nationality: Some Now Unpopular 19th Century Ideas, 65(2) Dalhousie Review 182-195 (1985).
Aron, Raymond, Il recupero di Tocqueville, 38(186) Comunità 118-134 (1984). English title: The revival of Tocqueville.
Aron, Raymond, Tocqueville and Marx, in History, Truth, Liberty 165-195 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985).
Aron, Raymond, Tocqueville retrouvé, 1 The Tocqueville Review -- 1979.
Auletta, Ken, If Tocqueville Could See Us Now, 33(4) American Heritage 8-17 (1982).
Barzun, Jacques, Notes on Tocqueville's Interpreters, 7 Tocqueville Review 149-155 (1985/1986).
Baunard, Mgr., La foi et ses victoires dans le siècle present (2d ed.; Paris: Poussielgue Frères, 1884)(Le combat de la foi; etudes biographiques et apologetiques; 3 serie). Includes material on Frederic Bastiat, Joseph Droz, Alexis de Tocqueville, Pierre Le Play.
Beloff, Max, Tocqueville and the Americans, 170 Fortnightly Review 573-579 (1951).
Benoît, Jean-Louis, Tocqueville aurait-il enfin trouvé ses juges? 27 Res publica – (December 2001).
Benoît, Jean-Louis, Relectures de Tocqueville, 16 Le Banquet – (December 2001).
Bentzel, Anne, Traveling Tocqueville’s America: Retracing the 17-state Tour That Inspired Alexis de Tocqueville’s Political Classic Democracy in America (Baltimore, MD: Published for C-SPAN by the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
Brogan, Hugh, XII: Tocqueville revisited, 41 History Today 49-52 (December 1991).
Bryant, Clell, Tocqueville’s America, 36(4) Smithsonian 104-107 (July 2005).
Byrne, D. S. Review Essay: Tocqueville in a Conservative World. Australian Review of Public Affairs Digest, February 13, 2006. Review of The Tocqueville Reader (Oliver Zunz and Alan S. Kahan ed.)(Blackwell Publishing, 2002).
Caplow, Theodore, The Current Relevance of Democracy in America, 7 Tocqueville Review 137-147 (1985/1986).
Couture, Yves, Philosophie politique et modernité: deux reappropriations critiques de Tocqueville (Paris: The Author, 1990)(Memoire et DEA: Doctrine et philosophie politiques).
De Tocqueville vs Blair, Spectator, May 20, 1995, at 7.
Drago, Roland, Actualité de Tocqueville (Tocqueville et l'administration), 139(4) Revue des Sciences Morales et Politiques 633-645 (1984). Tocqueville's Relevance Today: Tocqueville on Administration.
Draper, Theodore, The Idea of the "Cold War" and Its Prophets: On Tocqueville & Others, Encounter, February 1979, at 34-45.
Drosnay, Arthur de, Les petits mysteres de l'Academie Française, revelations d'un envieux ... (Paris: Chez Saint-Jorre et chez Dentu, 1844). Includes essay on Tocqueville.
Furet, François, Aron réintroducteur de Tocqueville, in Raymond Aron, la philosophie de l'histoire et les sciences sociales (J.-C. Chamboredon, ed.; Paris: Editions Rue d'Lum, 1999).
Freund, Dorrit, Aktuelle Gedanken zur Demokratie bei Alexis de Tocqueville und Max Weber, 53 Schweizer Monathefte 857-862 (1974).
Gauchet, M., Tocqueville, l'Amérique et nous. Sur la genèse des sociètes démocratiques, 80-87 Libre -- ().
Gerhard, Dietrich, Tocqueville und die Vereinigten Staaten von heute, in Historische Forschungen und Probleme: Peter Rassow zum 70. Geburtstag (Karl E. Born ed., Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1961).
Hansen, Klaus J., The Changing Fortunes of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, 89(1) Queen's Quarterly 233-237 (Spring 1982).
Hoeges, Dirk, Alexis de Tocqueville--Literatur im Zeitalter der Gleichheit, 1982 Siegener Hochschulblätter 44-55.
Jenkinson, Clay, Five Reasons to Read Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
Josephson, Mathew, A Century After Tocqueville, 14 Virginia Quarterly Review 579-595 (Autumn 1938).
Kessel, Eberhard, Das Tocqueville-Problem: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der neuesten Literatur, 1 Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 168-176 (1956).
Kimball, Roger, Tocqueville Today, The New Criterion Online.
Kimball, Roger, Tocqueville Today, 19(3) New Criterion 4-11 (November 2000).
Kasinitz, Philip, Missing Tocqueville? 21(4) Sociological Forum 693-694 (December 2006). Sociology.
Lawler, Peter Augustine, Democracy and Its Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Political Life Today (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
Leroy, Maxime, Tocqueville est-il actuel? 2 Preuves 72-74 (juin 1952).
Lukacs, John, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Historical Appreciation, 5(1) Literature of Liberty 8-42 (1982).
Mancini, Matthew, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Time to Ours (Totowa NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)(American Intellectual Culture Series).
Mancini, Matthew, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Post-Civil War Reputation, 43 (1) Society 75-81 (November/December 2005).
Mann, Golo, Tocqueville und das Amerika von heute, 5 Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 11-25 (1960).
Mélonio, Françoise, Editions recentes de Tocqueville, 13(2) Tocqueville Review 185-188 (1992).
Mill, John Stuart, Dissertations and discussions, political, philosophical, and historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster reviews (2d ed.; London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1867). Includes M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America in volume 2.
Mill, John Stuart, Dissertations and discussions political, philosophical, and historical (NY: Henry Holt, 1874-1882). Five volumes. "Reprinted mainly from the Edinburgh and Westminster reviews." Essay on Tocqueville appears in volume two.
Mill, John Stuart, Essais sur Tocqueville et la société americaine (Paris: J. Vrin, 1994)(Bibliotheque des textes philosophiques).
Mill, John Stuart, The philosophy of John Stuart Mill: ethical, political, and religious (Marshall Cohen ed.; NY: Modern Library, 1961)(The Modern Library of the World's Best Books; 322)> Includes M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America.
Mill, John Stuart, Sobre la libertad y comentarios a Tocqueville (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1991)(Coleccion Austral. Serie: Pensamiento A183). Translation of On Liberty.
Ostrom, Vincent, Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies, 2(3) Journal of Theoretical Politics 243-262 (1990).
Pease, Donald E., After the Tocqueville Revival; Or, the Return of the Political, 26(3) Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 87-114 (Fall 1999).
Pitney, John J., Jr., The Tocqueville fraud, 1(9) Weekly Standard 44-45 (November 13, 1995).
Przychodzen, Janusz, Tocqueville mis en scène par Vadeboncoeur, ou...de l'Amerique (non) democratique, 29(2) Études Littéraires 49 (Autumn 1996).
Reinhardt, Mark, The art of being free: taking liberties with Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997)(Contestations).
Roebuck, John Arthur, Democracy in America (London: Charles Ely, 1835). Commentary on Democracy in America and a review published in the London Review.
Roebuck, John Arthur, [Commentary], in Democracy in America (London: Charles Ely, 1835).
Salomon, Albert, Tocqueville, Moralist and Sociologist, 2 Social Research 405-427 (1953).
Sidgwick, Henry, Miscellaneous essays and addresses (London and NY: Macmillan, 1904). Includes Supplement: Alexis de Tocqueville, an essay first published in Macmillan Magazine, November 1861.
Spears, Monroe K., Tocqueville in 1989, 42(3) Hudson Review 369-381 (Autumn 1989).
Stackelberg, Jürgen von, Bemerkungen zur Sekündärliteratur über Alexis de Tocqueville, 6 Romantisches Jahrbuch 1953/1954.
Walters, Ronald G., Reforming Tocqueville, 9 Tocqueville Review 283-295 (1987/1988).
Whitfield, Stephen J., A century and a half of French views of the United States, 56(3) Historian 531-542 (Spring 1994).
Wiener, Jon, Professors, politics, and pop (London and NY: Verso, 1991)(The Haymarket series). Includes Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Nixon: Watergate in Theory.
Zachman, John R., Autonomy, Authority, and Liberty: The Politics of John Stuart Mill (Dissertation, Duke University, 2006). Includes discussion of Mill's writings on Tocqueville.
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