Great Upheaval America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

Name: Great Upheaval America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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ISBN: 9780060083137

ISBN-10: 0060083131

ISBN-13: 9780060083137

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Authors: Jay Winik

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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, 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 illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization. In this sweeping, magisterial drama, Winik brings his vast, meticulous research and narrative genius to the cold, dark battlefields and deadly clashes of ideologies that defined this age. Here is a…

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List price: $29.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/11/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 688
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 1.97" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

JAY WINIK is the author of the New York Times bestseller APRIL 1865, which received wide international acclaim. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. A senior scholar of history and public policy at the University of Maryland, he is a member of the governing council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Winik lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.



Prelude : at the threshold



The promise of a new age



Turmoil



Terror



A world transformed


Epilogue : the founding