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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog alternative "Tocqueville and Beaumont in America".
• catalog contributor b10154106.
• catalog coverage "United States Description and travel.".
• catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1783-1865.".
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "1. A celebrated book -- Part I: Behind the journey of a prophet -- 2. The education of an aristocrat -- 3. The decision to visit America -- and a good excuse -- 4. Preparations for escape".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 789-824) and index.".
• catalog description "Part II: Knickerbocker America -- 5. Havre to New York -- 38 days -- 6. Reception in New York -- 7. First impressions of the Americans -- 8. Society and the city authorities -- 9. Sing Sing -- the prison -- 10. Sing Sing -- reflections on American society -- 11. Finding a philosophy -- and losing it -- 12. June in New York -- 13. Taking stock of impressions".
• catalog description "Part III: New York to Buffalo -- 14. To Albany by sloop and steam -- 15. A state without a government? -- 16. Where once the Iroquois ... -- 17. The exile of Lake Oneida -- 18. Auburn -- where humanity meant the whip -- 19. Encounter with a governor, a squirrel, and a jurist".
• catalog description "Part IV: Great Lakes and Canada -- 20. Fortnight in the wilderness -- 21. Fortnight in the wilderness (cont) -- 22. On the upper lakes -- 23. Thunder of waters -- 24. Lower Canada: A lost empire?".
• catalog description "Part IX: The interpretation of an experience -- 53. 1832-1840: Through disgrace and disillusion -- 54. The prison report and a prison crusade -- 55. The materials for Tocqueville's book -- 56. The design of the Democratic -- 57. Tocqueville's work in retrospect: Its defects -- 58. Tocqueville's work in retrospect: Its enduring qualities.".
• catalog description "Part V: New England: The heart of the experience -- 25. To Stockbridge, Boston, and bad news -- 26. The chilliness of Boston -- and the Poles -- 27. The aristocrats unbend -- 28. Boston (cont.) social observations and lesson on the jury -- 29. With the leaders of church and state -- 30. Sparks -- and local self-government -- 31. Mr. Adams and Dr. Channing -- 32. Two Massachusetts prisons -- 33. Seen (and not seen) in Connecticut -- 34. Connecticut afterthought".
• catalog description "Part VI: Philadelphia and Baltimore -- 35. The heavenly prison of the philanthropists -- 36. Sounding the Pennsylvania mind -- 37. Baltimore -- 38. Beaumont's Marie -- 39. Philadelphia again".
• catalog description "Part VII: Ohio and Mississippi -- 40. Journey to the Ohio: The hazards of stage and steam -- 41. Cincinnati -- 42. Ohio -- or reflections on the manufacture of an American state -- 43. Winter road to Memphis -- 44. Tennessee reflections -- 45. Encounter with Choctaw Indians -- and an accident -- 46. Two famous books -- and an exile named Houston".
• catalog description "Part VIII: New Orleans to Washington -- 47. '24 Heures a la Nouvelle Orleans' -- 48. From Mobile to the Chesapeake -- 49. Mr. Poinsett explains -- 50. 'What makes a republic bearable' -- 51. Washington receives the commissioners -- 52. Federal studies and the return".
• catalog extent "xii, 852 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0801855063 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Description and travel.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1783-1865.".
• catalog subject "973.5/6 20".
• catalog subject "Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 Journeys United States.".
• catalog subject "Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 Travel United States.".
• catalog subject "E165 .P65 1996".
• catalog subject "Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 Journeys United States.".
• catalog subject "Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 Travel United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. A celebrated book -- Part I: Behind the journey of a prophet -- 2. The education of an aristocrat -- 3. The decision to visit America -- and a good excuse -- 4. Preparations for escape".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part II: Knickerbocker America -- 5. Havre to New York -- 38 days -- 6. Reception in New York -- 7. First impressions of the Americans -- 8. Society and the city authorities -- 9. Sing Sing -- the prison -- 10. Sing Sing -- reflections on American society -- 11. Finding a philosophy -- and losing it -- 12. June in New York -- 13. Taking stock of impressions".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part III: New York to Buffalo -- 14. To Albany by sloop and steam -- 15. A state without a government? -- 16. Where once the Iroquois ... -- 17. The exile of Lake Oneida -- 18. Auburn -- where humanity meant the whip -- 19. Encounter with a governor, a squirrel, and a jurist".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part IV: Great Lakes and Canada -- 20. Fortnight in the wilderness -- 21. Fortnight in the wilderness (cont) -- 22. On the upper lakes -- 23. Thunder of waters -- 24. Lower Canada: A lost empire?".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part IX: The interpretation of an experience -- 53. 1832-1840: Through disgrace and disillusion -- 54. The prison report and a prison crusade -- 55. The materials for Tocqueville's book -- 56. The design of the Democratic -- 57. Tocqueville's work in retrospect: Its defects -- 58. Tocqueville's work in retrospect: Its enduring qualities.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part V: New England: The heart of the experience -- 25. To Stockbridge, Boston, and bad news -- 26. The chilliness of Boston -- and the Poles -- 27. The aristocrats unbend -- 28. Boston (cont.) social observations and lesson on the jury -- 29. With the leaders of church and state -- 30. Sparks -- and local self-government -- 31. Mr. Adams and Dr. Channing -- 32. Two Massachusetts prisons -- 33. Seen (and not seen) in Connecticut -- 34. Connecticut afterthought".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part VI: Philadelphia and Baltimore -- 35. The heavenly prison of the philanthropists -- 36. Sounding the Pennsylvania mind -- 37. Baltimore -- 38. Beaumont's Marie -- 39. Philadelphia again".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part VII: Ohio and Mississippi -- 40. Journey to the Ohio: The hazards of stage and steam -- 41. Cincinnati -- 42. Ohio -- or reflections on the manufacture of an American state -- 43. Winter road to Memphis -- 44. Tennessee reflections -- 45. Encounter with Choctaw Indians -- and an accident -- 46. Two famous books -- and an exile named Houston".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part VIII: New Orleans to Washington -- 47. '24 Heures a la Nouvelle Orleans' -- 48. From Mobile to the Chesapeake -- 49. Mr. Poinsett explains -- 50. 'What makes a republic bearable' -- 51. Washington receives the commissioners -- 52. Federal studies and the return".
• catalog title "Tocqueville and Beaumont in America".
• catalog title "Tocqueville in America / by George Wilson Pierson.".
• catalog type "text".