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

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 12/10/2019
ISBN: 9780465096664
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 2.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019
Library Journal 11/01/2019 pg. 94
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 14