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It was a new world.(The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800)(Book review)
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800, by Jay Winik (HarperCollins, 688 pp., $29.95)
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IN his insightful and brilliantly narrated new book, Jay Winik tells the stories of the French Revolution, the war between Catherine the Great's Russia and the Ottoman Empire, and the United States from the adoption of the Constitution to the election of Jefferson--three chapters from the waning years of the 18th century that, together, amount to what Winik calls a "great upheaval," the "crucible" that formed the modern world.
This global perspective enables Winik to put the events of the 1790s in a fresh ...
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