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Author Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Title Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America : their friendship and their travels / edited by Olivier Zunz ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973 TOC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  917.3045 T56    Check Shelf
Description xxxix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Note Translated from the French.
Summary A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont.
Contents Letters from Tocqueville and Beaumont on their American travels -- Tocqueville's travel notebooks -- Tocqueville's narration of two excursions -- Tocqueville's and Beaumont's texts on the penitentiary system -- Beaumont's Marie, or, Slavery in the United States : a novel of Jacksonian America, 1835 -- Tocqueville's letters on the writing and publication of Democracy in America -- Tocqueville's and Beaumont's views of America after 1840.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject United States -- Description and travel -- Sources.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Travel -- United States.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Friends and associates.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Friends and associates.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Archives.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Correspondence.
Added Author Zunz, Olivier, editor.
Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866.
Added Title Selections. English. 2010
ISBN 9780813930626 cloth alkaline paper $60.00
0813930626 cloth alkaline paper
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