Bibliograph

Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America, their friendship and their travels, edited by Olivier Zunz ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America, their friendship and their travels, edited by Olivier Zunz ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

639939977

Responsibility statement

edited by Olivier Zunz ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Sub title

their friendship and their travels

Summary

A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont

Table Of 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

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