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-- Seventeen eighty-nine2020., Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 909.7 SEV Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "'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"--From the publisher's web site.
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2005., Juvenile, Grolier Call No: 930 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Timelines of history Volume: vol. 8Summary Note: Presents an illustrated exploration of the important events, places, individuals and ideas of human history from 1700 to 1800 A.D.
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c1993, Facts on File Call No: 909.7 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The illustrated history of the world Volume: bk. 6Summary Note: Explores the history of the world from 1650 to 1800 with emphasis on the agricultural revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the American and French Revolutions, Manchu China, and Shogunate Japan.
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Call No: 641.5 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship traveled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here are stories of social class, hierarchy and race; stories of explorers and the people of the land; the story of one of the world's most famous explorers told through a fresh new lens. This beautiful book is full of information drawn from extensive research alongside evocative illustrations, released to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Endeavour's journey.
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2018., Juvenile, Cavendish Square Call No: 355.4 8 McN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Profiles over thirty-five notable battles that occurred across the world from 1471 in Sweden to the beginning of the Sino-Burmese War in 1767. Arranged chronologically, each battle features a brief description of the battle including its importance, the dates in which the battle took place, notable leaders, a map showing troop movement on the battlefield, and maps that indicate where the battle took place.
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-- Eighteenth centuryBy Rooney, Annec2005, Facts on File Call No: 391 .009 033 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the development of costume and fashion over the course of history, focusing on the styles and trends of the eighteenth century in the West and around the world. Includes photographs and a time line.
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-- Global story of American independence[2005]., Juvenile, Clarion Call No: 973.3 ARO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes philosophical, political, and economic shifts around the world that led to what John Adams called the "real revolution" in America--changes in the American mindset--and explains how these changes brought about the explosive events that set off the Revolutionary War.
