A New World Begins - The History of the French Revolution
Author(s): Jeremy Popkin
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.
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- : Basic Books
- : Basic Books
- : 0.82
- : 01 November 2019
- : 5.2 Centimeters X 16.4 Centimeters X 24.3 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jeremy Popkin
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 944.04
- : 640