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Author Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Uniform Title Correspondence. Selections. English.
Title Letters from America / Alexis de Tocqueville ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown.

Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973 Toc    ---  Available
Description xx, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note Includes excerpts from travelling companion Gustave de Beaumont.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Source NBK 12/10 PPL
Subject United States -- Description and travel -- Sources.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
National characteristics, American -- 19th century -- Sources.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Travel -- United States.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 -- Correspondence.
Added Author Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866.
Brown, Frederick, 1934-
ISBN 9780300153828
0300153821

 
    
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