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Tocqueville in America Softcover - 1996
by Pierson, George Wilson
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Details
- Title Tocqueville in America
- Author Pierson, George Wilson
- Binding softcover
- Edition Later prt.
- Condition Used - Fine copy
- Pages 880
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore
- Date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS089795I
- ISBN 9780801855061 / 0801855063
- Weight 2.79 lbs (1.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 6.14 x 2.04 in (23.16 x 15.60 x 5.18 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, United States - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96027754
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.56
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From the rear cover
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.
