1789
The Threshold of the Modern Age
Andress, David
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nationsFrance; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britainlay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution, wrestled to seize the prize of citizenship from the ruins of the old order. Disaster loomed for the United States, too, as it struggled, in the face of crippling debt and inter-state rivalries, to forge the constitutional amendments that would become known as the Bill of Rights. Britain, a country humiliated by its defeat in America, recoiled from tales of imperial greed and the plunder of India as a kings madness threw the British constitution into turmoil. Radical changes were in the air. A year of revolution was crowned in two documents drafted at almost the same time: the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Bill of Rights. These texts gave the world a new political language and promised to foreshadow new revolutions, even in Britain. But as the French Revolution spiraled into chaos and slavery experienced a rebirth in America, it seemed that the budding code of individual rights would forever be matched by equally powerful systems of repression and control. David Andress reveals how these events unfolded and how the men who led them, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, and George Washington, stood at the threshold of the modern world. Andress shows how the struggles of this explosive yearfrom the inauguration of George Washington to the birth of the cotton trade in the American South; from the British Empires war in India to the street battles of the French Revolutionwould dominate the Old and New Worlds for the next two centuries.
AUTHOR BIO
David Andress is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France (FSG, 2006).
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374100136
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374100131
Dewey Decimal: 909.7
Library of Congress: 2008044697
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 439
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