On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France: The Complete Text

by Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville

Provides the first complete and literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

Fills a void in Tocquevillian studies and extrapolates the roots of American penal reform in the nineteenth century.

Appeals to a growing field of scholars investigating civil society, as well as students of political science and theory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030099938
• ISBN13: 9783030099930
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"