Hypertext of Alexis DeTocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA witha gallery of related projects describing America ca. 1820-1840.

Biography of Alexis de Tocqueville written by Harvard students.

Soci 50 May 27 Notes on Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat (as we shall see, this was important in how he understood what the US was like) who lived from 1805-1859. He came to the US for nine months in 1831 to observe revisions of the prison system, but ended up seeing so much more. His two-volume work Democracy in America (the final volume was published in 1840) was an ...