Format:
viii, 627 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karte
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780465096664
Content:
"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."
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebk ISBN 978-0-4650-9667-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Französische Revolution
;
Geschichte
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