Bibliographies

 

FOR FURTHER READING

*All of the following books and articles will be available through UVA library*

1- Introduction (July 18)

General works applicable to the Seminar as a whole:

• “Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859): A Special Bicentennial Issue.” The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville 27, no. 2 (2006).
• Antoine, Agnès. L’impensé de la démocratie: Tocqueville, la citoyenneté et la religion. Paris: Fayard, 2003.
• Aron, Raymond. “Tocqueville.” In Main Currents in Sociological Thought, trans. Richard Howard and Helen Weaver. New York: Basic Books, 1965.
• Benoît, Jean-Louis. Tocqueville moraliste. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.
• Boesche, Roger. The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
• Boudon, Raymond. Tocqueville aujourd’hui. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005.
• Brogan, Hugh. Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Damrosch, Leo. Tocqueville's Discovery of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
• Drescher, Seymour. Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968.
• Drescher, Seymour. Tocqueville and England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.
• Eisenstadt, Abraham S., ed. Reconsidering Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
• Elster, Jon. Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Furet, François. “The Conceptual System of Democracy in America.” In In the Workshop of History, trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
• Gannett, Robert T., Jr. Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for “The Old Regime and the Revolution.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Guellec, Laurence. Tocqueville et les langages de la démocratie. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.
• Guellec, Laurence, ed. Tocqueville et l’esprit de la démocratie. Paris: Sciences Po les Presses and The Tocqueville Review, 2005.
• Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Jardin, André. Tocqueville: A Biography. Trans. Lydia Davis with Robert Hemenway. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
• Jaume, Lucien. Tocqueville: Les sources aristocratiques de la liberté. Paris: Fayard, 2008.
• Jaume, Lucien. Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
• Kahan, Alan S. Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Kahan, Alan S. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Kelly, George Armstrong. The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism. With a foreword by Stephen R. Graubard. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Lamberti, Jean-Claude. Tocqueville and the Two Democracies. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
• Manent, Pierre. Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy. Trans. John Waggoner. With a foreword by Harvey C. Mansfield. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
• Mansfield, Harvey C. Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Manzini, Charlotte. Qui êtes-vous Monsieur de Tocqueville? Saint-Lô: Archives de la Manche, 2005.
• Mélonio, Françoise. Tocqueville and the French. Trans. Beth G. Raps. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
• Pierson, George Wilson. Tocqueville and Beaumont in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Reprinted as Tocqueville in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• Ryan, Alan. On Tocqueville: Democracy and America. Liveright Classics. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014.
• Schleifer, James T. The Making of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
• Tocqueville, Alexis de. The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Welch, Cheryl B., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Welch, Cheryl B. De Tocqueville. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Wolin, Sheldon S. Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

 

2- Citizen Participation in Democracy (July 19)

Tocqueville’s America, Beaumont’s Slavery, and the United States in 1831–32
Mark A. Noll
American Political Thought
Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2014), pp. 273-302

Alexis de Tocqueville and the Two-Founding Thesis
James W. Ceaser
The Review of Politics
Vol. 73, No. 2 (Spring 2011), pp. 219-243

Tocqueville and Local Government: Distinguishing Democracy's Second Track
Robert T. Gannett, Jr.
The Review of Politics
Vol. 67, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 721-736

 

3- The New Political Science (July 20)

Tocqueville's Constitutionalism
Robert P. Kraynak
The American Political Science Review
Vol. 81, No. 4 (Dec., 1987), pp. 1175-1195

Tocqueville on the Good of American Federalism
Ralph C. Hancock
Publius
Vol. 20, No. 2, Forming the American Constitution: Liberty and Equality (Spring, 1990), pp. 89-108

 

4- The Tyranny of the Majority (July 21)

Tocqueville and the Tyranny of the Majority
Morton J. Horwitz
The Review of Politics
Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 1966), pp. 293-307

Did Tocqueville Foresee Totalitarianism?
Martin E. Malia
Journal of Democracy
Volume 11, Number 1, January 2000, pp. 179-186

Educating Tocqueville: Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America
Guy Aiken
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 34, Number 1, 2013, pp. 169-192

 

5- Race as a Crucial Problem that America Had Yet to Solve (July 22)

Settler Colonialism: Then and Now
Mahmood Mamdani
Critical Inquiry
Vol. 41, No. 3 (Spring 2015), pp. 596-614

Race and Ethnicity in America
Nathan Glazer
Journal of Democracy
Volume 11, Number 1, January 2000, pp. 95-102

Tocqueville's South
James L. Crouthamel
Journal of the Early Republic
Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter, 1982), pp. 381-401

 

6- The Myriad Implications of “Equality of Conditions” for the Nature of the Social Bond (July 25)

Democracy's "Free School": Tocqueville and Lieber on the Value of the Jury
Albert W. Dzur
Political Theory
Vol. 38, No. 5 (October 2010), pp. 603-630

The Prison: Tocqueville's Model for Despotism
Roger Boesche
The Western Political Quarterly
Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 550-563

Tocqueville's American Woman and "The True Conception of Democratic Progress"
Delba Winthrop
Political Theory
Vol. 14, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp. 239-261

 

7- Self-Interest Properly Understood (July 26)

Les injustices révoltantes: Gustave de Beaumont and the Pre-history of Crimes Against Humanity
Cheryl B. Welch
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 31, Number 1, 2010, pp. 201-219

Was Marie White? The Trajectory of a Question in the United States
Nell Irvin Painter
The Journal of Southern History
Vol. 74, No. 1 (Feb., 2008), pp. 3-30

 

8- A Modern Society of Free Choice and Social Mobility (July 27)

John Stuart Mill, Disciple of de Tocqueville
Terence H. Qualter
The Western Political Quarterly
Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1960), pp. 880-889

Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism
Sanford Lakoff
The Review of Politics
Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 435-464

"Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare": Tocqueville's Most Neglected Prognosis
Seymour Drescher
The Journal of Modern History
Vol. 64, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 429-454

 

9 & 10- Additional Topics (July 28 & 29)

EDUCATION

Beyond utility?: Tocqueville on liberal education, and education for liberty
Ewa Atanassow
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 34, Number. 2, 2013, pp. 169-177

Tocqueville and liberal education
Alan S. Kahan
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 34, Number. 2, 2013, pp. 159-168

INEQUALITY

A Fearful Asymmetry: Can American Democracy Survive Global Hegemony
Arthur Goldhammer
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 30, Number 1, 2009, pp. 117-136