This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is ...

In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make ...

First published in French in 1856, French diplomat and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville’s “The Old Regime and the French Revolution” ...

This scarce antiquarian book contains a report made to the Chamber of Deputies concerning the abolition of slavery in the French colonies and written by ...