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

"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. In The Great Upheaval, Jay Winik illuminates how their fates combined in one moment to change the course of civilization." "In this drama, Winik brings his vast research to the battlefields and 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. Here, too, is the first modern holy war between Islam and a resurgent Christian empire. And here are Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. With echoes for understanding the international chaos that confronts the globe today, we see them all fighting desperately for the ideals they believed in, whether man-made democracy or divinely inspired autocracy, whether republicanism or Allah's law."--BOOK JACKET.Winik, Jay is the author of 'Great Upheaval America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800', published 2007 under ISBN 9780060083137 and ISBN 0060083131.