Tocqueville and the Old Regime

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 Alcalá 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.