The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, they are 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 of 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.
Vienna
Richard Cockett
audiobookThe German Genius : Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
Peter Watson
audiobookThe Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
audiobookPresident McKinley : Architect of the American Century
Robert W. Merry
audiobookbookGround Combat : Puncturing the Myths of Modern War
Ben Connable
audiobookTides of Fortune : The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries
Zack Cooper
audiobookThe Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945
Michael R. Beschloss
audiobookVietnam War, The : A Military History
Geoffrey Wawro
audiobookThe West : A History of an Idea
Georgios Varouxakis
audiobookCrisis and Crossfire : The United States and the Middle East Since 1945: 2nd Edition
Peter L. Hahn
audiobookThe Age of Revolutions : And the Generations Who Made It
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
audiobookOutmaneuvered : America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan
James A. Warren
audiobookbook