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Alexis 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.
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Social life and customs, Travel, Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859, Description and travel, Sociale verandering, Manners and customs, Democratie, Tocqueville, alexis de, 1805-1859, United states, description and travel, United states, social life and customs, Beaumont, gustave de, 1802-1866, Early works to 1800People
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Tocqueville in America
1996, Johns Hopkins University Press
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0801855063 9780801855061
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 825-833) and index.
"Originally published as Tocqueville and Beaumont in America in a hardcover edition by Oxford University Press, 1938"--T.p. verso.
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont travelled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs their evolving analysis of American society.
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