Ziesche, Philipp. Cosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)

Ziesche, Philipp. Cosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution. Univ. of Virginia. 2010. c.256p. ISBN 978-08139-2891-3. $39.50. HIST

Ziesche (assistant editor, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale Univ.) focuses on a diverse group of Americans who lived in Paris for varying lengths of time from the late 1780s to the early 1800s. These included diplomats like Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Gouverneur Morris, and William Short, the poet Joel Barlow, and numerous private merchants. The relationship between the American and French revolutions has been covered in many earlier books, but Ziesche's short volume manages to offer fresh perspectives. He explores the …