A New World Begins av Jeremy D. Popkin

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<P><B>From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (<I>Wall Street Journal</I>) account of the revolution that created the modern world</B></P><P>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 <I>A New World Begins</I>, 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.</P><P>Based on decades of scholarship, <I>A N