Age of the Democratic Revolution
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 1, 1969
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780691005690
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Colonization & independence; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; Political History; Europe - General; History; History - U.S.; United States - Revolutionary War; Politics/International Relations; Europe; USA; Political Ideologies - Democracy; European History; History / Europe / General; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); Political Science-Political History; Political Science-Political Ideologies - Democracy; United states; 18th century; Constitutional history; Politics
First sentence: A YOUNG Philadelphian of good family, Thomas Shippen, in the course of a visit to Europe, where he cultivated the acquaintance of "titled men and ladies of birth," bore a letter of introduction to Thomas Jefferson, the American Minister to France, who presented him at the court of Versailles.