Tocqueville and the Old Regime - Herr, Richard

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Résumé :
Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are interested in Tocqueville and his great hook on The Ancien Regime and the Revolution Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Biographie:
Richard Herr is Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, and the recipient of an honorary degree from the Universidad de Alcal? de Henares, Spain. His other works include: ? The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1958) ? Tocqueville and the Old Regime (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1962) ? An Historical Essay on Modern Spain (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974) ? Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1989) ? Co-author with Robert Woodmansee Herr, An American Family in the Mexican Revolution (Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 1999) ? Our Family: The Winships and the Herrs (Self published, 2010) ? Separate but Equal? Individual and Community since the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2016). For more information, see: https://history.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/richard-herr.