TY  - BOOK
AU  - Popkin,Jeremy D.
TI  - A new world begins: the history of the French Revolution 
SN  - 9780465096664 (hardcover)
AV  - DC148 .P665 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1789-1799
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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."
ER  -