Tocqueville's discovery of America
By: Leo Damrosch.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780374278175
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859 -- Travel -- United States; National characteristics, American; United States -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where Tocqueville was coming from; title: First impressions : New York City; title: Everything attests to a new world; title: The romance of the forest; title: Boston : democracy as a state of mind; title: Philadelphia : toleration, association, and incarceration; title: Democracy in the West; title: Down river to New Orleans; title: Road trip through the South; title: The nation's disappointing capital; title: Building a masterpiece; title: Afterward; title: Timeline of the American journey.