Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) is a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).

In both of these works, he analyzes the rising living standards and social conditions of individuals and their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.

Democracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.

An eminent representative of the classical liberal political tradition, Tocqueville is an active participant in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849–1851) which succeedsthe February 1848 Revolution.

He retires from political life after Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter begins work on The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I.

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