Olivier Zunz
Biographic Data
| ID | 122378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Zunz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Zunz |
| SIGNATURE | ZUNZ O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Do We Live By
Review of the book by Lorraine DASTON, Rules: A Short History of What We Live By: This book is an impressively learned analysis of rulemaking through the ages and of the ways in which rules cohere into norms
Autonomous Methodology
Raymond Boudon was fond of saying he experienced an intellectual shock in reading Tocqueville as he recognized in Tocqueville’s method of thinking a forerunner of scientific sociology
Tocqueville on America, Custine on Russia
Only over a century after their first publication did American commentators read Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835, 1840) and Astolphe de Custine’s Russia in 1839 (1843) jointly and recognized in the two works complementary visionary explanations of the Cold War underway
Les conversations Tocqueville 5 e édition, 30 juin-1 er juillet 2023
Les Conversations Tocqueville se proposent de faire dialoguer ensemble des hommes politiques, des universitaires, des responsables de fondations, principalement européens et américains. Les Conversations 2023, fidèles au souci d’aborder les enjeux contemporains dans un esprit tocquevillien, ont porté sur l’Europe de demain : faut-il réarmer la démocratie ? La guerre en Ukraine a changé l’Europe. Le retour en force de l’impérialisme russe, la frag…
The Man Who Understood Democracy
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocrat would dedicate his life as a writer and politician to ending despotism in his country and bringing it into a new age. In this authoritative and…
Tocqueville et la République
Compte rendu du livre de Jean-Patrice Lacam, Tocqueville et La République. Récit d’un ralliement et de combats (Editions L’Harmattan, 2020, 255 p.) par Olivier Zunz
De la philanthropie américaine pendant la Grande Guerre
Le philosophe américain John Dewey s’interrogeait au lendemain de la Grande Guerre sur le problème des nationalités troublant l’Europe. Dewey proposait alors une solution qu’il pensait « américaine » au dilemme de la reconfiguration politique de l’Europe. « Aux États-Unis », affirmait-il, « les mêmes peuples à qui l’on apprend sur le Vieux Continent qu’ils ont des haines instinctives et irrévocables les uns pour les autres, vivent ici en bonne in…
Des Églises en politique
Theodore Caplow. In memoriam
This is with sadness that The Tocqueville Review marks the death of Tocqueville Society founder Theodore Caplow in Charlottesville, VA, on July 4, 2015 at the age of 95
Philanthropy in America
American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society? Philanthropy in America is the first book to explore in depth the twentieth-century growth of this unique phenomenon. Ranging from the influential large-scale foundations established by tycoons such as J…
Débat
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Frank M. Turner (1944–2010) Olivier Zunz The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville has just lost a close friend with the passing of Frank M. Turner, a distinguished intellectual historian and university librarian at Yale University. Frank was 66 years old. Frank Turner’s most recent publications are a major new edition of Edmund Burke’s famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (Yale University Press, 2003), a book that Tocque…
De la Démocratie en Amérique
Le premier volume dc la Democratie en Amerique parur en France en\ janvier 1835, ou il fut unanimement sahie1. La traduction anglaise d’Henry Reeve suivit la meme annee. Mais il fallut attendre 1838 pourvoir la premiere edition americaine, condition sine qua non d’une large diffusion du livre aux Etats-Unis2
Tocqueville and the writing of American History in the Twentieth Century
The two papers we have just heard ask us to think anew about Tocqueville’s work, especially to pay attention to the origins of his thought. Both François Furet and François Bourricaud insist that no intellectual work - regardless its brilliance - should ever be read out of context. It is especially true of Tocqueville’s work, which has often been invoked, on this side of the Atlantic, as the embodiment of the “liberal tradition,” a tradition that…
Social Contracts under Stress
A letter to subscribers
With this issue, The Tocqueville Review is launching a new phase of its activities, under the leadership of three new editors: Michel Forsé, Bernard Manin, and Françoise Mélonio. Bernard Manin, the newest member of our team, specializes in political philosophy. Michel Forsé, a sociologist of networks and social change, and Françoise Mélonio, a nineteenth-century intellectual historian and Tocqueville scholar, have been associate editors for years
Response to Byron Shafer's “Who, What, When, Where, and How”
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Twenty Years with The Tocqueville Review
I had been teaching for one year at the University of Virginia history department in the fall of 1979, when Theodore Caplow, a sociology professor, asked me to serve as an officer of his recently-created Tocqueville Society. Although the society had just published its first issue of the Tocqueville Review, it was distinct from it. In 1992, I joined the newly-formed editorial board which Henri Mendras created upon taking over the editorship
Why the American Century
Journal Article Why the American Century? By Olivier Zunz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 254 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-226-99461-9.) Get access Lawrence B. Glickman Lawrence B. Glickman University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1828–1829, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567681 Published: 01…
Claude Fohlen, Jean Heffer, François Weil, Canada et États-Unis depuis 1770, Paris, PUF, 'Nouvelle Clio
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Why the American Century
Civic Wars
Journal Article Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 376 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-520-20441-7) Get access Olivier Zunz Olivier Zunz University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 191–192, ht…
Présentation
Les essais regroupés ici, qui sont le fruit de rencontres successives entre historiens américains et japonais, nous invitent à réfléchir sur l'évolution du sentiment national au Japon au gré de l'alternance des politiques d'autarcie et d'ouverture qui ont marqué ce pays
Exporting American Individualism
The exporting of goods and capital has been Japan's much heralded success story of the postwar global order, much to the dismay of Americans who had been the prime builders of the Pax Americana on which the world's economy now rests. But despite today's headlines, U.S.-Japanese relations are not just about trade. This paper is about the exporting not of goods but of ideas and the connection between ideology and economic policy. I suggest that the…
Citizen Worker
The changing face of inequality
Reliving the past
Residential segregation in the American metropolis
Measuring residential segregation is a challenging and crucial task. Many important questions in urban history can be understood fully only after correctly assessing the importance and significance of the clustering patterns of different groups of urbanites. However, the extent to which and the ways in which various social classes, races, and ethnic groups congregated in the expanding industrial metropolis of nineteenth-century America form the s…
Making America Corporate, 1870-1920
Journal Article Making America Corporate, 1870–1920. By Olivier Zunz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. x + 267 pp. $24.95.) Get access Michael McGerr Michael McGerr Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1101–1102, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078887 Published: 01 December 1991
Detroit en 1880
Observer les formes des concentrations ethniques et sociales dans les villes des États-Unis revient à examiner certains traits essentiels de l'histoire urbaine. Car ce sont l'expérience ethnique, les conflits raciaux et les clivages sociaux qui se conjuguent pour produire la ségrégation caractéristique des villes américaines : quartier irlandais du North End de Boston, quartiers allemands de Milwaukee, petite Italie autour de Mulberry Street, Eas…
Débat
Tocqueville and the writing of American History in the Twentieth Century
The two papers we have just heard ask us to think anew about Tocqueville’s work, especially to pay attention to the origins of his thought. Both François Furet and François Bourricaud insist that no intellectual work - regardless its brilliance - should ever be read out of context. It is especially true of Tocqueville’s work, which has often been invoked, on this side of the Atlantic, as the embodiment of the “liberal tradition,” a tradition that…
Large Corporations and New Middle Classes
Reliving the Past
Genèse du pluralisme américain
Qu'entend-on par ' pluralisme ' aux États-Unis ? Compris dans son acception la plus large, le pluralisme est une idéologie de la différence. Être pluraliste, c'est concevoir l'univers comme fracturé et nier l'existence d'une seule vérité ; c'est favoriser les parties aux dépens du tout. Ainsi défini, le pluralisme est devenu une des idées-forces du XXe siècle américain, en fait un second nom pour libéralisme. Au-delà de ces généralités, deux conc…
Étude d'un processus d'urbanisation
La recherche présentée ici n'a d'autre but que de vérifier dans l'histoire quelques impressions sur la ville et d'en quérir de nouvelles. Elle se propose de reconstruire l'environnement dans lequel les hommes ont vécu, en restituant le processus physique d'urbanisation d'un secteur de Paris. Analyser l'évolution du tissu dont la ville est constituée permet de décrypter ses formes et de rendre intelligible les groupements, de saisir la logique urb…
Paris au fil du temps
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Un livre collectif sur les villes occidentales du XIXe siècle
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Technology and Society in an Urban Environment
Third Avenue Elevated Railway Through the analysis of some population data from the city of New York in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, I propose to test some of the concepts involved in the new urban history.' I believe that in order to understand the relationship between physical environment and human behavior, and to differentiate the effects of a specific urban environment from the general process of social change in the…
Toulon, VIIIe ouvrière au temps du socialisme utopique
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Sampling for a Study of the Population and Land Use of Detroit in 1880-1885
The Organization of the American City in the Late Nineteenth Century
Detroit en 1880
Observer les formes des concentrations ethniques et sociales dans les villes des États-Unis revient à examiner certains traits essentiels de l'histoire urbaine. Car ce sont l'expérience ethnique, les conflits raciaux et les clivages sociaux qui se conjuguent pour produire la ségrégation caractéristique des villes américaines : quartier irlandais du North End de Boston, quartiers allemands de Milwaukee, petite Italie autour de Mulberry Street, Eas…
Charles Tilly, An urban world, Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1974, 487 p
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Residential segregation in the American metropolis
Measuring residential segregation is a challenging and crucial task. Many important questions in urban history can be understood fully only after correctly assessing the importance and significance of the clustering patterns of different groups of urbanites. However, the extent to which and the ways in which various social classes, races, and ethnic groups congregated in the expanding industrial metropolis of nineteenth-century America form the s…
The changing face of inequality
Work and Family in Industrializing America
« Work » and « family » : two major components of the human experience which have received concentrated attention. Labor historians, for example, have explored the changing modes of production, the evolving organization of work, and its effects on society. Historical demographers have focused on such family-related issues as the causes of recent fertility decline, the rise of the modem nuclear family, and the revolution in mores. The ways in whic…
Industrialization and Ethnicity
The Author Responds
"New Assaults on the "Breakdown Thesis
The Changing Face of Inequality
Originally published in 1983, The Changing Face of Inequality is the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing industrialization. Zunz examines Detroit's evolution between 1880 and 1920 and discovers the ways in which ethnic and class relations profoundly altered its urban scene. Stunning in scope, this work makes a major contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century cities
Naissance de l'Amerique industrielle. Detroit 1880-1920
The Changing Face of Inequality
The Changing Face of Inequality
Reliving the past
On the Fringe
German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910
Tocqueville and the Writing of American History in the Twentieth Century
The two papers we have just heard ask us to think anew about Tocqueville’s work, especially to pay attention to the origins of his thought. Both François Furet and François Bourricaud insist that no intellectual work regardless its brilliance—should ever be read out of context. It is especially true of Tocqueville’s work, which has often been invoked, on this side of the Atlantic, as the embodiment of the “liberal tradition,” a tradition that per…
Tocqueville and the Writing of American History in the Twentieth Century
The two papers we have just heard ask us to think anew about Tocqueville’s work, especially to pay attention to the origins of his thought. Both François Furet and François Bourricaud insist that no intellectual work regardless its brilliance—should ever be read out of context. It is especially true of Tocqueville’s work, which has often been invoked, on this side of the Atlantic, as the embodiment of the “liberal tradition,” a tradition that per…
Big Changes in Social History
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