The Old Regime and the Revolution
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The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic historical and sociological study analyzing the social and political conditions in France before the French Revolution and how they shaped its outbreak and aftermath.
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| L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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historical study ⓘ sociological study ⓘ |
| analyzes | causes of the French Revolution ⓘ |
| author | Alexis de Tocqueville ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| examines |
centralization of administrative power in France
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continuity of administrative centralization after the Revolution ⓘ local privileges and particularism in Old Regime France ⓘ peasantry and rural society in France before 1789 ⓘ relationship between centralization and revolution ⓘ role of the French bureaucracy before the Revolution ⓘ role of the French monarchy before the Revolution ⓘ role of the French nobility before the Revolution ⓘ |
| field |
history
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political science ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
continuities between Old Regime and post-revolutionary France
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political institutions of the Ancien Régime ⓘ social conditions in pre-revolutionary France ⓘ |
| genre |
historiography
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political sociology ⓘ |
| hasForm | non-fiction prose ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
French historiography of the Ancien Régime
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modern studies of revolutions ⓘ sociological theories of revolution ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | comparative analysis of France and other European societies ⓘ |
| historicalEventDescribed |
French Revolution
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surface form:
French Revolution of 1789
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| historicalPeriodDescribed | 18th-century France ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Democracy in America
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surface form:
Alexis de Tocqueville's earlier work Democracy in America
liberal political thought ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
educated general readers
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scholars ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
administrative despotism
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centralization of the state ⓘ social equality of conditions ⓘ survival of Old Regime practices after revolution ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Ancien Régime
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surface form:
Ancien Régime in France
French Revolution ⓘ |
| movement | classical liberalism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of structural causes of the French Revolution
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argument about continuity between Old Regime and modern France ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| theorizes |
link between equality of conditions and revolutionary upheaval
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persistence of Old Regime structures after 1789 ⓘ |
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L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution