Letters from America

Publication Data

• Title Letters from America
• Alternative Title Correspondence. Selections. English
• Author Alexis de Tocqueville
• Contributors Gustave de Beaumont, Frederick Brown
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Includes excerpts from traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont.

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.

Topics

• Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 :: Correspondence
• Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 :: Travel :: United States
• Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 :: Travel :: United States
• Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866
• National characteristics, American :: 19th century :: Sources
• United States :: Description and travel :: Sources
• United States :: Politics and government :: 1783-1865 :: Sources
• United States :: Social life and customs :: 1783-1865 :: Sources
• United States

Letters from America by Alexis de Tocqueville. ISBN 9780300153828. Published by Yale University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.