A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" account of the revolution that created the modern world (Wall Street Journal)

From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world

The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is 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 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, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.

• | Author: Jeremy D. Popkin, Jeremy D. Popkin
• | Publisher: Basic Books
• | Publication Date: Nov 25, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781541620179
• | ISBN-10: 1541620178