Letters From America

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Brown is professor emeritus! State University of New York at Stony Brook. His previous books include Zola: A Life; Flaubert: A Biography; and The Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus. He lives in New York City. Klappentext Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831! commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. This title provides a translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that sem Zusammenfassung Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831! commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. This title provides a translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Brown, Alexis de Tocqueville
• Assisted by: Frederick Brown (Editor), Brown Frederick (Editor), Frederick Brown (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2012
• EAN: 9780300181838
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18183-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith; mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; USA, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, TRAVEL / United States / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, Diaries, letters and journals, Classic Travel Writing