Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948-
A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution / History of the French Revolution Jeremy D. Popkin. - First edition. - New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."
9780465096664 (hardcover)
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
DC148 / .P665 2019
A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution / History of the French Revolution Jeremy D. Popkin. - First edition. - New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."
9780465096664 (hardcover)
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
DC148 / .P665 2019