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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

Popkin, Jeremy

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 0465096662
ISBN13: 9780465096664
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Dec 10 2019
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.95
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world.

A fresh and fair-minded account of the revolution overflowing with vivid narrative detail and clear exposition. --Wall Street Journal

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 stands as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.

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