1789 : the threshold of the modern age / David Andress
2008, Library Copy. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine cloth library copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.Library marks remain. Item #350372
ISBN: 9780374100131
Physical description; vi, 439 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes; First published: London : Little, Brown, 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; "He snatched lighting from the heavens" : Benjamin Franklin, the Enlightenment and France's crisis of the 1780s -- "The best model the world has ever produced" : governing America and Britain in the traumatic 1780s -- "Vibrating between a monarchy and a corrupt oppressive aristocracy" : The woes of France and America, (1787-8) -- "The seeds of decay and corruption" : Britain, empire and the king's madness, (1784-8) -- "The base laws of servitude" : empire, slavery and race in the 1780s -- "That offspring of tyranny, baseness and pride" : abolitionism, political economy and the people's rights -- "Constant effort and continuous emulation" : the revolutions of cotton and steam -- "This general agitation of public insanity" : France and Britain in the spring of 1789 -- "Highly fraught with disinterested benevolence" : empire, reason, race and profit in the Pacific -- "Deep rooted prejudices, and malignity of heart, and conduct" : President Washington and the war in the West -- "No, sire, it is a revolution" : from the Estates-General to the Bastille, France, May-July 1789 -- "For all men, and for all countries" : declaring rights in America and France -- "Your houses will answer for your opinions" : the French Revolution imperiled -- "The greatest event it is that ever happened in the world" : the British and the French Revolution -- Conclusion : (1789/1798). Subjects; Europe History (1789-1815). United States History (1783-1815). Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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