Alexis De Tocqueville and Gustave De Beaumont in America
Their Friendship and Their Travels
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Format: Book
Description: xxxix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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.
Subjects:
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.
National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
United States -- Description and travel -- Sources.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- 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.
National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
United States -- Description and travel -- Sources.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
ISBN:
9780813930626 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| HISTORY North Am. US Toc | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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