{"product_id":"individual-choice-and-the-structures-of-history-alexis-de-tocqueville-as-historian-reappraised-hardback-9780521560917","title":"Individual Choice and the Structures of History; Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (Hardback) 9780521560917","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndividual Choice and the Structures of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA perceptive study of de Tocqueville's works, revealing his deep involvement with the philosophy of history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarvey Mitchell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521560917, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 March 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.585 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is an important contribution to the expanding universe of Tocqueville scholarship.   Harvey Mitchell has seized upon a major dilemma in the study of Tocqueville...Mitchell is at his very best.\"   American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlexis de Tocqueville is recognized as one of the most important nineteenth-century historians. In this perceptive study, Harvey Mitchell examines Tocqueville's works, in particular Souvenirs of 1848 and his voluminous correspondence, to shed new light on Tocqueville's philosophy of history. Professor Mitchell exposes the tensions which Tocqueville perceived between determined actions and choice, continuity and change, asking what happens to individual liberty if it is impossible to make a clean break with the past, and if past developments continue to influence the future. Professor Mitchell draws on the full range of Tocqueville's writings to find in them a unity of thought and a deep involvement with the philosophical questions raised by historical continuity and change.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introduction: 1. Frameworks\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Paradoxes in Tocqueville's Idea of History: 2. Towards a theory of history\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tocqueville's conceptualisation of moral choice and the particular\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Plotting Crisis and Change: 4. Tocqueville's uses of intentionality and necessity in the 'Souvenirs'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Towards the history of 'L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Three faces of history in democracy in America\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Historian of the Breakdown of the Old Society: 7. Tocqueville on the general laws of revolution\u003cbr\u003e 8. The aristocratic ethos on the defensive\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ideas and public opinion\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Epilogue: 10. Further reflections\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography, Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065986863384,"sku":"9780521560917","price":87.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521560917i.jpg?v=1691408587","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/individual-choice-and-the-structures-of-history-alexis-de-tocqueville-as-historian-reappraised-hardback-9780521560917","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}