A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465096664ISBN-10:465096662UPC:9780465096664Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Military, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:France, Revolutions & Wars of Independence, DemocracySize:9.30 x 6.40 x 2.00 inchesWeight:1.95Product ID:SCD1EW27E0
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all of their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465096664ISBN-10:465096662UPC:9780465096664Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Military, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:France, Revolutions & Wars of Independence, DemocracySize:9.30 x 6.40 x 2.00 inchesWeight:1.95Product ID:SCD1EW27E0
Jeremy D. Popkin holds the William T. Bryan chair of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of many books, including You Are All Free and A Short History of the French Revolution. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
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