Description
| Product ID: | 9780465096664 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A New World Begins |
| Subtitle: | The History of the French Revolution |
| Authors: | Author: Jeremy D. Popkin, Jeremy D. Popkin |
| Page Count: | 640 |
| Subjects: | History, History, European history, History: specific events and topics, Social and cultural history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, Political structures: democracy, European history, History: specific events & topics, Social & cultural history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Political science & theory, Political ideologies, Political structures: democracy, France, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Basic Books |
| Publisher Name: | Basic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-02 |
