Lorenzo de Zavla written work is better recognized by his books titled: “Ensayo Historico de las Revoluciones de Megico des 1808 hasta 1830” which was published in Paris 1831 and in New York in 1832. His other book titled “Viages a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America” which was published in the Paris 1831. In Zavala’s book Journey to the United States of North America, written in Spanish, but was published in English translation until 1980. It was reprinted in 2005 in paperback as Journey to the United States of North America. It precedes Toqueville’s famous Democracy in America by five years and expresses similar opinions about America and Americans. Zavala writes in his prologue:
However, it should be very useful to Mexicans, for it is to them that I dedicate it. In it they will find a true description of the people whom their legislators have tried to imitate—a people that is hard working, active, reflective, circumspect, religious in the midst of a multiplicity of sects, tolerant, thrifty, free, proud and persevering.