Bernier, Olivier The World in 1800 ISBN 13: 9780471395218

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Bernier provides us with a riveting chronicle of that time, so vastly different from our own yet so pregnant with meaning for us as we embark upon a new century. From Europe?s bloodstained landscape to the prosperous ports and homesteads of a nascent United States, from the Spanish dominions of Central and South America to the slave trading posts of Africa?s Gold Coast and the lavish interiors of China?s Forbidden City, Bernier takes us on a dizzying journey around the world, providing a finely textured portrait of civilization at the dawn of the modern era.

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The world two centuries ago was much unlike our own--but closer in spirit to our own time than to the century that preceded it. Across the globe, writes Olivier Bernier, a sense had spread that it was possible for individuals of whatever social station to be free and make their own place in life; although everywhere there was still "a radical separation between the well to do and the rest of the population," the example of revolutionary America and revolutionary France set in motion forces that would lead to the growth of democracy and internationalism alike. Bernier charts this growth and the parallel rise of empires, nationalism, and world trade. He offers some surprising, and fresh, interpretations of history along the way. For instance, he suggests that the restaurant as we know it was the outgrowth of the French revolution, when chefs previously employed by aristocratic households opened their kitchens to anyone who could afford a meal. (The same revolution, he adds, introduced the metric system and the concept of civil marriage to the world.)

Bernier occasionally swims against the tide, arguing, for instance, that Thomas Jefferson did not father children by Sally Hemmings, a slave on his Monticello plantation. (The best evidence suggests otherwise.) But his wide-ranging view of a time when the affairs of one country could influence events thousands of miles away makes for constantly fascinating reading. --Gregory McNamee

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"Olivier Bernier’s richly detailed, engaging, and elegant book offers a splendid refresher course on a pivotal moment in world history–the dawn of the modern era."–Francine du Plessix Gray

"Elegantly written." –The New York Times Book Review

"Bernier’s style is easeful and informed: he has an acute eye for a colourful, clever, and iconic image."–The Times (London)

"Sweeping, impressively argued. . . . A distinguished work of popular history."–Kirkus Reviews

"Bernier is less interested in historical debates than in telling a good story."–San Francisco Chronicle

"When the art historian in Bernier gains ascendancy, the result is wonderful."–The Australian Financial Review

". . . for the first time ever, the world was one, united by war and by the survival of that most ancient of evils, slavery. Already during the Seven Years’ War, from 1756 to 1763, fighting had ranged across the continents and across the oceans; but it had been disorganized and relatively brief, a series of spasms rather than a new way of being. The wars of the French Revolution, from 1792 to 1815, changed all that. Now the leading nations–France and Great Britain particularly–had worldwide strategies. What happened in Rio, Cairo, Calcutta, or Cape Town mattered to the governments in Paris and London; and each movement of the adversaries caused consequences thousands of miles away."–From the Introduction

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  • PublisherWiley
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 0471395218
  • ISBN 13 9780471395218
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages464
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