Philipp Ziesche . Cosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution . (Jeffersonian America.) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2010. Pp. xv, 239. $39.50.
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Abstract
Philipp Ziesche brings a fresh perspective to bear on a venerable subject: the relationship between the French and American revolutions. Viewing the age through eyes of Americans in Paris, Ziesche challenges the easy distinction often drawn between the two revolutions—one moderate and pragmatic, the other radical and violent—winding his way through the complex thicket of French and U.S. politics to highlight instead the parallels between two emerging nationalisms born of revolution and grounded in universal ideals. The narrative focuses on a small cast of characters, with a close (at times too close) examination of their experiences, observations, and writings. The book kicks off with two of the incontournables, Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris. Although most historians emphasize their divergent political views, Ziesche dwells on similarities: both enmeshed in the highest echelons of U.S. politics, both well integrated into liberal enlightenment salons and networks of sociability in Paris, both adherents to a Montesquieuvian outlook on politics. Morris and Jefferson overlapped in Paris, where Jefferson helped his compatriot avoid the “severe seasoning” that (in his remarkable words) he himself had experienced by introducing Morris to le tout Paris (p. 18). In retrospect, these months in early 1789 emerge as the high point of Franco‐American comity. “Every body here is trying their hands at forming declarations of rights,” Jefferson exulted, and every aspiring French philosophe seemed to want input from these two eminent Americans (p. 21). Matters soon changed, however, as politics in France took a turn to the left and the more conservative Morris replaced Jefferson as his country's minister in Paris.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.010 |
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