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1789

David Andress

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.

  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : NOV 14, 2010
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 448
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349119588
  • Price : INR 899
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David Andress

David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of a number of acclaimed studies of the French Revolution and its international context including The French Revolution and the People (2004) The Terror (2005) and 1789 (2008). As well as broadening his writing interests to embrace the British Isles he is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution.

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