Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: George Wilson Pierson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813930626
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Author: Gustave de Beaumont
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Andreas Hess
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331969667X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context. It accompanies the two friends to the US and analyses the fruitful encounter between the New and the Old World that was the result of that journey, particularly in relation to emerging Atlantic democracies and revolutions. This includes the hopes but also the problems and contradictions that they have come to represent. The book also follows Tocqueville and Beaumont to England, Ireland, and Algeria. It discusses their political careers and their engagement in the abolitionist movement, their fight for liberal social and political reform, as well as their futile attempt to rationalize French colonization in Algeria.

Author: George Wilson Pierson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1764

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled 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 from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030015383X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville’s later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont’s correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered. These delightful letters provide an intimate portrait of the complicated, talented Tocqueville, who opened himself without prejudice to the world of Jacksonian America. Moreover, they contain many of the impressions and ideas that served as preliminary sketches for Democracy in America, his classic account of the American democratic system that remains an important reference work to this day. Accessible, witty, and charming, the letters Tocqueville penned while in America are of major interest to general readers, scholars, and students alike.

Author: Anne Bentzel
Publisher: C-Span
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont's travels in America in 1831-32 have been retold by C-SPAN. For nine months, the cable TV network retraced the Frenchmen's journey, featuring programming from cities along the route. Now the Tocqueville rediscovery continues with the publication of this unique guide-book. Comprising 47 brief chapters covering cities and small towns that Tocqueville visited, the book allows readers to hear Tocqueville's words while following in his footsteps. Chapters include descriptions of cities and towns, excerpts of what Tocqueville wrote about them, accounts of what Tocqueville and Beaumont did there and details about sights that can be seen today. The book provides telephone numbers and addresses of visitors bureaus, general directions and comparisons of the towns as they are today with what they were like in Tocqueville's era. Traveling Tocqueville's America is the perfect companion for armchair traveler and tourist alike.

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: George Wilson Pierson
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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