The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics

Chronology.

Part I: The Discovery of Democracy in America:.

Preliminary Note.

Illustration: Map of the American Voyage.

1. Travel Letters: First Impressions of America and Important Sketches of Democracy in America, 1831.

2. Excerpts from American Notebooks: Tocqueville's Conversations with His American Informants; Travel Impressions on the Road.

3. Volume One of Democracy in America, 1835.

Part II: Great Britain, France, and the United States:.

Preliminary Note.

4. Discovery of England, Poverty, Pauperism, and Social Policy, 1835-1837.

5. Ambitions, Marriage, and Tocqueville's Views of His Own Brand of Liberalism, 1833-1840.

6. Volume Two of Democracy in America.

Part III: The Years in Politics:.

Preliminary Note.

7. Tocqueville's Political Philosophy.

8. Tocqueville the Colonialist.

9. Tocqueville in 1848.

10. Tocqueville Retires from Political Life and Returns to Writing.

Part IV: The Return to The Old Regime and the Revolution:.

Preliminary Note.

11. The Old Regime and the Revolution Volume One.

12. The Old Regime and the Revolution Volume Two.

13. Last days.

Suggestions for Further Reading.

Note on Sources and Translations.

About the Editors.