1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change

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1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change

Title remainder

twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change

Statement of responsibility

edited by Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Title variation

Seventeen eighty nine

Contributor

• Aronson, Marc
• Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Editor

• Aronson, Marc
• Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Subject

• Eighteenth century
• Europe -- History
• Europe -- History -- 1648-1789
• Europe -- History -- 1789-1815
• History, Modern -- 18th century -- Juvenile literature
• Social change
• United States -- History
• United States -- History -- Confederation, 1783-1789
• United States -- History -- Constitutional period, 1789-1809
• Young adult literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Young adult literature

Language

eng

Summary

""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding, with mathematicians and scientists rewriting the history of the planet and the digits of pi. Lauded anthology editors Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti, along with ten award-winning nonfiction authors, explore a tumultuous year when rights and freedoms collided with enslavement and domination, and the future of humanity seemed to be at stake. Some events and actors are familiar: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Marie Antoinette and the Marquis de Lafayette. Others may be less so: the eloquent former slave Olaudah Equiano, the Seneca memoirist Mary Jemison, the fishwives of Paris, the mathematician Jurij Vega, and the painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. But every chapter brings fresh perspectives on the debates of the time, inviting readers to experience the passions of the past and ask new questions of today" --Amazon

Dewey number

909.7

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

juvenile