| Description |
xx, 659 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Prelude : at the threshold -- Part I. The promise of a new age -- Part II. Turmoil -- Part III. Terror -- Part IV. A world transformed -- Epilogue : the founding |
| Summary |
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now for the first time, in The Great Upheaval acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illustrates how their fates combined in one extraordinary to change the course of civilization. ... Here is a savage world war, the toppling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. Here, too, is the first modern holy war between Islam and a resurgent Christian empire. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage : Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, [John] Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. With powerful echoes for the international chaos that confronts the globe today, we see each of them fighting desparately for the ideals they believed in, whether man-made democracy or divinely inspired autocracy, whetehr republicanism or Allah's law." --front flyleaf |
| Notes |
Previously published in the USA by Harper, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 583-635) and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 18th century.
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World politics -- To 1900.
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Eighteenth century.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Constitutional period, 1789-1809.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140188
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| ISBN |
9781847371430 (hbk.) |
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1847371434 (hbk.) |
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