Cosmopolitan patriots
Subtitle: Americans in Paris in the age of revolution
By: Philipp Ziesche.
Series: Jeffersonian America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813928913; 9780813928982
Subjects: Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century; Americans -- France -- Paris -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Cosmopolitanism -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century; Cosmopolitanism -- United States -- History -- 18th century; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; France -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exporting American revolutions: Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Jefferson, and the debate about the French constitution, 1789; title: "Was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?" Political violence and the global stakes of the French Revolution, 1790-1792; title: Cosmopolitan sensibilities and national regeneration in the work of Joel Barlow, 1792-1794; title: "Strange, that Monroe should warn us against Jacobins!" The problem of popular sovereignty in Thermidorian Paris and Federalist America, 1794-1796; title: The end of a beautiful friendship: anti-cosmopolitanism, anti-Americanism, and public diplomacy, 1796-1799; title: From sister republics to republican empires: the Jeffersonian divorce from France and the Louisiana Purchase, 1800-1805.