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100 1 $aPierson, George Wilson,$d1904-1993,$eauthor.
240 10 $aTocqueville and Beaumont in America
245 10 $aTocqueville in America /$cby George Wilson Pierson.
250 $aJohns Hopkins paperbacks edition.
264 1 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c[1996]
264 4 $c℗♭1938
300 $axii, 852 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"Originally published as Tocqueville and Beaumont in America in a hardcover edition by Oxford University Press, 1938"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 825-833) and index.
520 $aAlexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) has long been a touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity. Tocqueville, a 29-year-old French nobleman, traveled the breadth of Jacksonian America with his friend Gustave de Beaumont to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. In Tocqueville in America, George Wilson Pierson reconstructs - from diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts - the two Frenchmen's nine-month tour and their evolving analysis of American society. We see Tocqueville near Detroit, noting the scattered settlement patterns of the frontier and the affinity of Americans for solitude; in Boston, witnessing the jury system at work; in Philadelphia, observing the suffocating moral regimen at the new Eastern State Prison (which still stands); and in New Orleans, disturbed by the racial caste system and the lassitude of the French-speaking population. This first complete paperback edition of Tocqueville in America restores to print sections on Tocqueville's journeys to the South and the frontier West, as well as observations on slavery and American women that were omitted from the abridged 1959 edition.
505 0 $a1. A celebrated book -- Part I: Behind the journey of a prophet -- 2. The education of an aristocrat -- 3. The decision to visit America -- and a good excuse -- 4. Preparations for escape.
505 0 $aPart II: Knickerbocker America -- 5. Havre to New York -- 38 days -- 6. Reception in New York -- 7. First impressions of the Americans -- 8. Society and the city authorities -- 9. Sing Sing -- the prison -- 10. Sing Sing -- reflections on American society -- 11. Finding a philosophy -- and losing it -- 12. June in New York -- 13. Taking stock of impressions.
505 0 $aPart III: New York to Buffalo -- 14. To Albany by sloop and steam -- 15. A state without a government? -- 16. Where once the Iroquois ... -- 17. The exile of Lake Oneida -- 18. Auburn -- where humanity meant the whip -- 19. Encounter with a governor, a squirrel, and a jurist.
505 0 $aPart IV: Great Lakes and Canada -- 20. Fortnight in the wilderness -- 21. Fortnight in the wilderness (cont) -- 22. On the upper lakes -- 23. Thunder of waters -- 24. Lower Canada: A lost empire?
505 0 $aPart V: New England: The heart of the experience -- 25. To Stockbridge, Boston, and bad news -- 26. The chilliness of Boston -- and the Poles -- 27. The aristocrats unbend -- 28. Boston (cont.) social observations and lesson on the jury -- 29. With the leaders of church and state -- 30. Sparks -- and local self-government -- 31. Mr. Adams and Dr. Channing -- 32. Two Massachusetts prisons -- 33. Seen (and not seen) in Connecticut -- 34. Connecticut afterthought.
505 0 $aPart VI: Philadelphia and Baltimore -- 35. The heavenly prison of the philanthropists -- 36. Sounding the Pennsylvania mind -- 37. Baltimore -- 38. Beaumont's Marie -- 39. Philadelphia again.
505 0 $aPart VII: Ohio and Mississippi -- 40. Journey to the Ohio: The hazards of stage and steam -- 41. Cincinnati -- 42. Ohio -- or reflections on the manufacture of an American state -- 43. Winter road to Memphis -- 44. Tennessee reflections -- 45. Encounter with Choctaw Indians -- and an accident -- 46. Two famous books -- and an exile named Houston.
505 0 $aPart VIII: New Orleans to Washington -- 47. '24 Heures a la Nouvelle Orleans' -- 48. From Mobile to the Chesapeake -- 49. Mr. Poinsett explains -- 50. 'What makes a republic bearable' -- 51. Washington receives the commissioners -- 52. Federal studies and the return.
505 0 $aPart IX: The interpretation of an experience -- 53. 1832-1840: Through disgrace and disillusion -- 54. The prison report and a prison crusade -- 55. The materials for Tocqueville's book -- 56. The design of the Democratic -- 57. Tocqueville's work in retrospect: Its defects -- 58. Tocqueville's work in retrospect: Its enduring qualities.
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