Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Letters from America / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown. - New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2010. - xx, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes excerpts from traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 --Travel--United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 --Travel--United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 --Correspondence.


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.

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