Cosmopolitan patriots : Americans in Paris in the age of revolution / Philipp Ziesche.
2010
DC718.A44 Z547 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Cosmopolitan patriots : Americans in Paris in the age of revolution / Philipp Ziesche.
Author
Ziesche, Philipp.
ISBN
9780813928913 (alk. paper)
0813928915 (alk. paper)
0813928915 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DC718.A44 Z547 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
944.04
Summary
"This truly transnational history reveals the important role of Americans abroad in the Age of Revolution, as well as providing an early example of the limits of American influence on other nations. From the beginning of the French Revolution to its end at the hands of Napoleon, American cosmopolitans like Thomas Jefferson, Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Paine, Joel Barlow, and James Monroe drafted constitutions, argued over violent means and noble ends, confronted sudden regime changes, and negotiated diplomatic crises such as the XYZ Affair and the Louisiana Purchase." "Eager to report on what they regarded as universal political ideals and practices, Americans again and again confronted the particular circumstances of a foreign nation in turmoil. In turn, what they witnessed in Paris caused these prominent Americans to reflect on the condition and prospects of their own republic. Thus, their individual stories highlight overlooked parallels between the nation-building process in both France and America, and the two countries' common struggle to reconcile the rights of man with their own national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Jeffersonian America.
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Table of Contents
Exporting American revolutions: Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Jefferson, and the debate about the French constitution, 1789
"Was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?" Political violence and the global stakes of the French Revolution, 1790-1792
Cosmopolitan sensibilities and national regeneration : the work of Joel Barlow, 1792-1794
"Strange, that Monroe should warn us against Jacobins!" The problem of popular sovereignty in Thermidorian Paris and Federalist America, 1794-1796
The end of a beautiful friendship : anti-cosmopolitanism, anti-Americanism, and public diplomacy, 1796-1799
From sister republics to republican empires : the Jeffersonian divorce from France and the Louisiana Purchase, 1800-1805.
"Was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?" Political violence and the global stakes of the French Revolution, 1790-1792
Cosmopolitan sensibilities and national regeneration : the work of Joel Barlow, 1792-1794
"Strange, that Monroe should warn us against Jacobins!" The problem of popular sovereignty in Thermidorian Paris and Federalist America, 1794-1796
The end of a beautiful friendship : anti-cosmopolitanism, anti-Americanism, and public diplomacy, 1796-1799
From sister republics to republican empires : the Jeffersonian divorce from France and the Louisiana Purchase, 1800-1805.