Author : Robert H. Blackman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1108492444
The first comprehensive study of the complex events and debates through which the 1789 French National Assembly became a sovereign body.
Author : Jeremy Popkin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0465096670
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 : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853961
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780947608057
Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1351366645
A Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians’ interpretations of these events. The book covers all aspects of the Revolution, including the political, social, and cultural origins of the Revolution, and its causes, events, and aftermath, to provide readers with a full, and yet concise, overview of the Revolution that helps them easily understand the key elements of the subject. Fully updated and revised, this new edition allows students to engage with the most current work on the subject with increased attention given to women’s role in the Revolution, full coverage of the struggles over race and slavery, a new emphasis on the populist element in revolutionary politics, and an expanded discussion of the historiography of the era. Supported by learning objectives, critical thinking questions, and suggestions for further reading, this is the perfect introduction to the French Revolution for students of French and European History in the late eighteenth century.
Author : Edward James Kolla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107179548
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 1962
Category : France
ISBN : 9780231023429
Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Arrow Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781784754372
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust the king, let alone guillotine him. But things quickly escalated until there was no turning back. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks at what went wrong and why France would be better off if they had kept their monarchy.
Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0195389417
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author : Lindy Vinke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781536921557
A Favor for Marie Antoinette is the first novel in a series set amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution. This volume is set in 1789, a year that bridges both the Ancien Regime and the onset of the Revolution, which started in July of that year. The real and terrifying threat of starvation, together with the complex political and economic issues of the time form the backdrop to the pampered life of Sophie, Comtesse de Boise. She leads a perfect life. She is rich, beautiful, happily married and enjoys her work as Reader to the Queen, who she admires and likes. After Marie Antoinette asks her to visit the Convent of Sainte Marie des Champs Celestes as a favor, Sophie's life starts to unravel. She investigates the history of a mysterious girl who lived at the Convent and discovers some unpleasant truths about her own family and about life under the current King's predecessor. As her investigations continue and her world starts to crumble, the Revolution begins and she is caught up in the events that eventually lead to the removal of the Royal family to Paris and their semi-imprisonment in the Tuileries. A Favor for Marie Antoinette is full of authentic historical detail and is the culmination of years of research into eye-witness accounts of the Revolution."
