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008 190419s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng
020 _a9780465096664 (hardcover)
020 _z9780465096671 (ebook)
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050 0 0 _aDC148
_b.P665 2019
100 1 _aPopkin, Jeremy D.,
_d1948-
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA new world begins :
_bthe history of the French Revolution /
_cJeremy D. Popkin.
246 3 0 _aHistory of the French Revolution
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_c2019.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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."
651 0 _aFrance
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1789-1799.
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_cBK
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_d7791