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A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution / Jeremy D. Popkin
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Basic Books, December2019 |
| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Umfang: | viii, 627 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780465096664 0465096662 9780465096671 0465096670 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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." |