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Letters from America / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown.

Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Imprint:New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2010.

Descriptionxx, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:Includes excerpts from traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont.

Note:The crossing -- In New York -- Upstate New York and west -- New England -- From Philadelphia to New Orleans -- The last leg : from New Orleans to Washington and New York -- Appendix: Tocqueville on civil law in Pennsylvania.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Author:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Uniform Title
Correspondence. English. Selections
Subject:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Travel -- United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Correspondence.
Subject:
National characteristics, American -- 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.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Primary sources.
Personal correspondence.
Contributor
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866.
Brown, Frederick, 1934-