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

Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Descriptionxxxix, 698 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Note: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 Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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