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Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948- author.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799.
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A new world begins :...
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A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution / Jeremy D. Popkin.
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Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948- author.
New York : Basic Books, 2021.
Subjects
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799.
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9781541620179 (paperback) :
1541620178 (paperback)
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viii, 627 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Edition:
First trade paperback edition
Contents:
Why a new history of the French Revolution? -- Two French lives in the Old Regime -- The monarchy, the philosophes, and the public -- The monarchy adrift, 1774-1787 -- "Everything must change" : the Assembly of Notables and the crisis of 1787-1788 -- A nation aroused, June 1788-May 1789 -- Revolution in a tennis court : from the Estates General to the National Assembly, May-July 1789 -- A people's revolution, July-August 1789 -- From the "Great Fear" to the Declaration of Rights, August 1789 -- Constitution-making and conflict, September-December 1789 -- A new world divided, January 1790-June 1791 -- A runaway king and a constitutional crisis, June-September 1791 -- A second revolution, October 1791-August 1792 -- A republic born in crisis, August 1792-May 1793 -- The revolution on the brink, June-December 1793 -- The arc of terror, January-July 1794 -- The Republic's new start, July 1794-October 1795 -- The Republic in question, October 1795-September 1797 -- From Fructidor to Brumaire, September 1797-November 1799 -- The slow death of the Republic, 1799-1804.
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"The French Revolution was the 'big bang' out of which all the elements of modern politics and social conflicts were formed. Democracy, populism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism, feminism, and abolitionism are all heirs to the momentous upheaval that began in Paris in 1789. Historian Jeremy Popkin offers a riveting account of the Revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the turmoil that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. Going beyond the typical cast of Robespierre, Danton, and Mirabeau, Popkin includes the women who demanded equal rights and the enslaved blacks who wrested freedom from revolutionaries to recount how people sought to make themselves 'free and equal in rights.' From the drafting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror, [this book] is a history of the French Revolution for our own time. Even after more than two hundred years, Popkin argues, the principles of the French Revolution continue to guide the search for a just society. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins is a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world"--Jacket
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