Jeremy Popkin Livres

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.

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 successful slave uprising, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to first independent black republic of modern era. Numerous narratives of these events survive. This book unearths these documents and presents excerpts from more than a dozen accounts written by white colonists trying to come to grips with a world that had suddenly disintegrated.

The narrative explores the tumultuous events surrounding the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793, highlighting the interplay of revolutionary ideals and the struggle for freedom. It delves into the social and political dynamics of the time, examining the roles of key figures and the impact of the French Revolution on enslaved people. The book provides a detailed account of the resistance efforts and the eventual shift in policy that led to significant changes in both the colony and France.

From Herodotus to H-Net provides a concise yet comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to clearly written and impressively global in its reach historiography, accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students of history.