It is impossible, for instance, to analyze the dismantling of slavery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries apart from a host of political developments —
specifically liberal ones, but also specifically Christian ones, derived in part from evangelical missionary attitudes and discoveries.
So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains
one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine
liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq
specifically.