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.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
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National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States.
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Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Travel -- United States.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Friends and associates.
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Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Friends and associates.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Archives.
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Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Correspondence.
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Added Author |
Zunz, Olivier, editor.
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Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
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Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866.
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Added Title |
Selections. English. 2010
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ISBN |
9780813930626 cloth alkaline paper $60.00 |
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0813930626 cloth alkaline paper |
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