The great upheaval; America and the birth of the modern world, 1788-1800.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: May 1, 2008 | Copyright information

9780060083137

The great upheaval; America and the birth of the modern world, 1788-1800.

Winik, Jay.

HarperCollins

2007

659 pages

$29.95

Hardcover

E310

The 1790s were a period of great tumult worldwide and, as Winik (history and public policy, U. of Maryland) would have it, "the decade that made the modern world," planting seeds "of republics and revolution, of democratic hopes a...