A new World Begins : : the History of the French Revolution
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"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." --Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: viii, 627 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465096664
0465096662
SUBJECTS
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.