Format | Paperback |
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
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Print length: | 640 pages |
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Language: | English |
Publication date: | 22 February 2022 |
Dimensions: | 13.97 x 4.06 x 20.96 cm |
ISBN-10: | 1541620178 |
ISBN-13: | 978-1541620179 |
Description
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 is the definitive treatment of the French Revolution. —- ISBN: 9781541620179 | ISBN10: 1541620178 | ISBN-13: 978-1541620179