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The History of the French Revolution

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A New World Begins

De: Jeremy D. Popkin
Narrado por: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
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The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society - even if, after more than 200 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 listener 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.

©2019 Jeremy D. Popkin (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC Democracia Europa Francia Guerras y Conflictos Ideologías y Doctrinas Militar Moderna Monarquía Política y Gobierno Siglo XVIII Revolución Francesa Para reflexionar
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About as good a one volume history of the French Revolution you’ll find, and with a very nice reader.

Very good.

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A comprehensive picture of the revolution and its aftermath. Not much color in setting the scenes. The facts are there but little feeling for the people and their motivations.

The French Revolution, good and bad

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This fine work is probably the best modern work on the French Revolution for experts and nonexperts alike.

Great details and well organized

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It's a story written with a clear path from start to finish. it is consistent and mostly without bias. it does not shy away from atrocity and is good at changing perspectives as needed to allow the reader to understand the thoughts and actions of each character. while some say he is critical of Napoleon, he is no more critical of him than the truth is.

amazing review of the French Revolution.

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i learned a lot about the French revolution. very easy to follow. not too academic.

interesting and easy to follow

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Revolution in France began with the highest ideals. Absolute monarchy would be replaced with democracy. The people of France would control their own government, and thereby their destiny as a nation. Social classes would become equal in the law. Human rights would advance, even beyond those proclaimed 14 years before by the American Colonists, The French Monarch would abide by a new French Constitution. Liberty, equality, fraternity, and above all reason would reside in the new revolutionary state.

All this idealism and seeming enlightenment came a cropper. As the French Revolution moved along from the exhilaration of 1789, when the Bastille fell and a new Estates General/parliament began debating the adoption of a Constitution based mostly on the American document, things began falling apart. The French King was reluctant to surrender his powers, until forced to become a prisoner, then branded a traitor, and finally sent to the guillotine. A series of charismatic revolutionary firebrands commanded political power, then fell afoul of plotters within the Assembly, and met with the executioner as had the King. Meanwhile. France's revolutionary ardor was met with armed hostility by the rest of Europe. Wars of varying intensity erupted between France and its neighbors throughout the 1790's. This left the political rulers of France little time to tamp down the firebrands and the plotters, while boosting the leadership of ambitious military men, among these a little-known Napoleon Bonaparte.

A New World Begins is an excellent one-volume history of the Revolutionary period in France, beginning in the 1780's when the country's economy was wrecked by peasant uprisings, crop failures. and war debts (the French had spent dearly while helping the Americans defeat their British rulers). The Revolutionary years from 1789 to 1804 are extensively covered, although Napoleon's rise from minor officer in the new French army to crowning himself emperor of the French is dealt with almost as an afterthought in the final section of the book.

What I believe this book does is shout a warning from history: that with the noblest ideas of creating a peaceful, prosperous society where all citizens are equal before the law, a state can descend into anarchy. In this state, the politically strong send the weak to be executed, no one is beyond the executioner's reach, and ultimately a strongman (or woman) rises to end the madness and impose his or her will.

A Noble Idea Laid Waste by Human Frailty

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Prologue read by author not narrator thank God! Great book. Great narration of the French Revolution.

Great book

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One of the most complex and intricate periods in European and world history, brilliantly explained. I completed the book a first time and restarted it immediately.

Brilliant

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Overall, this was a very informative book, especially for those who wanted to bush up on the French Revolution again. Pete Cross's narriation was also done well, pronouncing French names correctly.

Nice complete history of the French Revolution

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The author brings the French Revolution to life and nicely weaves sometimes neglected parts of the revolution like women and St. Domingue. (Haiti) into his lively narrative.

Superb History

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