# A New World Begins

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- Authors: [Jeremy D. Popkin](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeremy-d-popkin)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-15-4162-017-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2021-11-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 is the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.