Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xxi, 277 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages[227]-264) and index. |
Contents |
Where Tocqueville was coming from -- First impressions : New York City -- Everything attests to a new world -- The romance of the forest -- Boston : democracy as a state of mind -- Philadelphia : toleration, association, and incarceration -- Democracy in the West -- Down river to New Orleans -- Road trip through the South -- The nation's disappointing capital -- Building a masterpiece -- After America. |
Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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National characteristics, American.
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ISBN |
9780374278175 hardcover |
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0374278172 hardcover |
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