New Interactive Edition of Democracy in America Available on HeinOnline

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. Tocqueville and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character.

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is a classic text of politics and history in which the author examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. The link above takes you to HeinOnline’s new interactive edition, available to the Cleveland State community.