"He snatched lighting from the heavens" : Benjamin Franklin, the Enlightenment and France's crisis of the 1780s
"The best model the world has ever produced" : governing America and Britain in the traumatic 1780s
"Vibrating between a monarchy and a corrupt oppressive aristocracy" : The woes of France and America, 1787-8
"The seeds of decay and corruption" : Britain, empire and the king's madness, 1784-8
"The base laws of servitude" : empire, slavery and race in the 1780s
"That offspring of tyranny, baseness and pride" : abolitionism, political economy and the people's rights
"Constant effort and continuous emulation" : the revolutions of cotton and steam
"This general agitation of public insanity" : France and Britain in the spring of 1789
"Highly fraught with disinterested benevolence" : empire, reason, race and profit in the Pacific
"Deep rooted prejudices, and malignity of heart, and conduct" : President Washington and the war in the West
"No, sire, it is a revolution" : from the Estates-General to the Bastille, France, May-July 1789
"For all men, and for all countries" : declaring rights in America and France
"Your houses will answer for your opinions" : the French Revolution imperiled
"The greatest event it is that ever happened in the world" : the British and the French Revolution
Conclusion : 1789/1798.