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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

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by Jeremy Popkin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeremy PopkinPublish date:2021-10-26Pages:640
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541620179ISBN-10:1541620178UPC:9781541620179Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Military, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:France, Revolutions & Wars of Independence, DemocracySize:8.30 x 5.60 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCE1GVKVCT

From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world

The French Revolution's principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society--even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is 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 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541620179ISBN-10:1541620178UPC:9781541620179Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Military, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:France, Revolutions & Wars of Independence, DemocracySize:8.30 x 5.60 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCE1GVKVCT

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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