Cosmopolitan patriots : Americans in Paris in the age of revolution / Philipp Ziesche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziesche, Philipp.

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Americans.

Americans--France--Paris--Intellectual life--18th century.

Cosmopolitanism--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Cosmopolitanism.

Cosmopolitanism--United States--History--18th century.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

France--Relations--United States.

United States--Relations--France.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 identities.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585707

9781280490477

1280490470

9780813928982

0813928982

OCLC:

759159953