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  <title><![CDATA[The Old Regime and the French Revolution]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alexis de Tocqueville]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 19 03:45:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution, develops his main theory about continuity in which he states that even though the French tried to disassociate themselves from the past and from the old regime; they c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7925803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about the causes of the French Revolution; there is also some explanation of why the French Revolution took the course it did. The analysis of the French Revolution is fascinating; I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent study n sociology of revolutionary mechanisms. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great look at the causes of the French Revolution.  De Tocqueville takes the reader back into French history and points out the many signs of revolution to come.  It may be helpful to know a little about the French Revolution before reading this text.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great (and objective!) study of the roots of the revolution in French society. For those who truly want to understand what happened in 1789, de Tocqueville's writings are a MUST.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Tocqueville is too old &amp; specific to a time in history to critique. I'm not saying that out of admiration or disdain of him either. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i should probably have read this already. uchicago is going to kick me out for the fraud i am.]]></body>
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