A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution

A new world begins : the history of the French Revolution

History of the French Revolution

1st ed.

New York : Basic Books, 2019.

viii, 627 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

944.04 P825 2019

(OCoLC)1096482983

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" ...--Book jacket.|Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-597) and index.|L2020M10

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