A New World Begins: The Historical past of the French Revolution

The rules of the French Revolution stay the one doable foundation for a simply society — even when, after greater than 2 hundred years, they’re extra contested than ever earlier than. In
A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin provides a riveting account of the revolution that places the reader within the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the institution of a brand 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 ladies demanding equal rights and black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to behave on their very own rules; and we comply with the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror.

Based mostly on many years of scholarship,
A New World Begins will stand because the definitive therapy of the French Revolution.