The Great Upheaval: The Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 - Rilegato

Winik, Jay

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ISBN 10: 1847371434 ISBN 13: 9781847371430

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

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 savage world war, the toppling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage: Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. Exquisitely written and utterly compelling, The Great Upheaval vividly depicts an arc of revolutionary fervour stretching from Philadelphia and Paris to St Petersburg and Cairo -- with fateful results.

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'The Great Upheaval is a wild ride through the final decade of the 18th century. It makes the era come alive in an opera of sex, violence and great ideas. We see the events of the 1790s - such as the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon, the "Whisky" Rebellion and the presidency of George Washington, the Polish Rebellion and the wars of Catherine the Great - as part of an interlinked global narrative'
Financial Times 12/1
'A heavyweight tome, analysing the planetary political changes between 1788 and 1800: America and France I revolution; Russia ascendant against the Ottomans; Britain as bulwark and reactionary force'
Scotland on Sunday
‘Winik covers so much ground in his forceful and breathless book’
TLS 14/3
'Horizontal history linking George Washington in neoplyte America, Louis XVI in revolutionary France and Catherine the Great in imperial Russia. The minor characters add extra zest to a lively decade'
Best Books of 2008, FT 30/11

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847371434
• ISBN 13: 9781847371430
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 688