by Alexis de Tocqueville · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789875990265
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«Quince días en el desierto americano» is the travel account by Alexis de Tocqueville, published by Libros del Zorzal in paperback (102 pages, in Spanish).
In July 1831, Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont travel from Detroit to Saginaw and observe how the advance of the white man transforms the American landscape: razed forests, places that become cities, and persecuted indigenous communities. The author turns this journey into a reflection on the cost of expansion and the disappearance of native peoples.
Edition published in 2007; translation of «Quinze jours au désert». Its author, Alexis Henri Charles de Clérel, Viscount of Tocqueville (1805-1859), was a French jurist, politician, and historian.
For readers interested in the history of America and in Tocqueville's thought on democracy and territorial expansion.
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
