Abstract
Professor Alderson's first major published work is bound to be controversial. His subject is diplomacy, revolution, and republican crusade, France, the United States, and the Caribbean during the mid-1790s, something for everyone no doubt, and thus creating the perfect opportunity for readers to take pot shots at him. With some specificity, he examines the role of the Girondin-appointed French consul M-A-B Mangourit in Charleston, South Carolina, as it impacted American, French, and Caribbean events and individuals of the early 1790s. On the American side were the Federalists led by George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and a host of other founding fathers (who surprisingly tended to support England in a variety of ways, some of which were economic). These leaders, referred to as “elites” by Mangourit, believed the central government (and not the states or the locality) was best situated to provide the essential political stability, industrial growth, and international respect for American commerce and international neutrality that would allow the new country to become competitive with older nations.
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