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The Great Upheaval
Jay Winik
America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Harper
September 2007
On Sale: September 11, 2007
688 pages ISBN: 0060083131 EAN: 9780060083137 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Fresh and brilliant, this is the book that completely
redefines the founding era. As the 1790s began, America was
struggling to survive at home and abroad, and the world was
gripped by an arc of revolutionary fervor stretching from
Philadelphia and Paris to St. Petersburg and Cairo--with
fatal results. While a fragile United States teetered on the
brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power,
the Islamic peoples were gearing for war, and France plunged
into monumental revolution. In The Great Upheaval, acclaimed
historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates
combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of
civilization and bequeath us the nation--indeed, the
world--we've inherited. Below we see a brief taste of the
incredible events and people who shaped this most memorable
of decades.
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