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Letters from America [[electronic resource] /] / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown



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Autore: Tocqueville Alexis de <1805-1859.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Letters from America [[electronic resource] /] / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, ; ; London, : Yale University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 973
973.5
Soggetto topico: National characteristics, American - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Description and travel Sources
United States Social life and customs 1783-1865 Sources
United States Politics and government 1783-1865 Sources
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BeaumontGustave de <1802-1866.>  
BrownFrederick <1934->  
Note generali: Includes excerpts from traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CROSSING -- IN NEW YORK -- UPSTATE NEW YORK AND WEST -- NEW ENGLAND -- FROM PHILADELPHIA TO NEW ORLEANS -- THE LAST LEG: F ROM NEW ORLEANS TO WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK -- APPENDIX -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered.These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account of the American democratic system that remains an important reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest to general readers, scholars, and students alike.
Titolo autorizzato: Letters from America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-57124-1
9786613600844
0-300-15383-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462020603321
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