1789: The Revolutions that Shook the World - Softcover

Andress, David

 
9780316731973: 1789: The Revolutions that Shook the World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0316731978 ISBN 13: 9780316731973
Verlag: Little, Brown & Company, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

In 1789 the world stood at the threshold of the modern age. While the French Revolution and the election of George Washington seemed to herald a new global order, Britain stood shocked at the new world unfolding before her. Two documents were drafted which would change the very meanings of citizens and statehood: the US Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. The age of royal despotism had ended. But beneath this veneer of progress, darker forces were at work: the French Revolution spiralled out of control, American slavery expanded and the armed forces of the British Empire were unleashed in India. From 'mad' King George III to J.J. Rousseau and Thomas Paine, from Pitt the Younger to Robespierre, David Andress illuminates a world on the brink through the men who held its future in their hands.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Andress is a leading scholar of the French Revolution and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Verlag
Little, Brown & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316731978
ISBN 13 
9780316731973
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Anzahl der Seiten
448
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