The World in 1800
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OLIVIER BERNIER was born in the United States of French parents and was educated in Paris, at Harvard, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He is the author of several critically acclaimed histories, including Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties; Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood: The Mob, the Monarchy, and the French Revolution; and Louis XIV: A Royal Life. He has also taught art history and is widely acclaimed for his lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Introduction: Two Worlds, One World.
EUROPE.
A Very Great Change.
All the Pleasures of Life.
Unbeatable Bonaparte.
Great Britain and France.
Eastern Europe: Dealing with France.
NORTH AMERICA.
Inventing Politics.
Quasi-War and Dangerous Aliens.
A Vast New Country.
The Spirit of 1800.
ANOTHER AMERICA.
New Spain, Old Habits.
Autonomy or Independence?
Peru and Brazil.
ASIA.
The Center of the World.
A Civilized Empire.
Splendid Japan.
India: The Invention of an Empire.
The Middle East: The Ottoman Empire.
AFRICA.
So Close, So Far.
Afterword.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
