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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

by Jeremy Popkin

Liberty and equality in revolutionary France

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    Praised by The Wall Street Journal

    The Wall Street Journal praises the book as a fresh, fair-minded account with vivid narrative detail and clear e...

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Liberty and equality in revolutionary France

Jeremy D. Popkin’s history connects the French Revolution’s debates over liberty and equality with the upheaval that dismantled the monarchy and established a new society. The account follows prominent figures including Mirabeau, Robespierre and Danton, while also bringing into view women’s demands for equal rights and the struggle of enslaved Black people for freedom. The failed escape and execution of Louis XVI, the Reign of Terror and Napoleon’s rise mark key stages in the history presented here. The book also sets the Revolution’s principles in the context of their continuing, contested place in ideas about a just society.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a history of the French Revolution and its political upheavals.
  • Readers interested in the Revolution’s debates over liberty, equality and social change.
  • Readers looking for historical accounts that include women’s rights and the struggle against slavery.

Themes

French RevolutionLiberty and equalityMonarchy and political changeWomen’s rightsAbolition and freedom

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Book overview

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world.

"A fresh and fair-minded account of the revolution overflowing with vivid narrative detail and clear exposition." --Wall Street Journal

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 stands as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
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