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Author | : David Lawday |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2010-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802197027 |
A biography of Georges-Jacques Danton, a leading French revolutionary—from his rural upbringing to his death five years after the storming of the Bastille. One of the Western world’s most epic uprisings, the French Revolution ended a monarchy that had ruled for almost a thousand years. Georges-Jacques Danton was the driving force behind it. Now David Lawday, author of Napoleon’s Master, reveals the larger-than-life figure who joined the fray at the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and was dead five years later. To hear Danton speak, his booming voice a roll of thunder, excited bourgeois reformers and the street alike; his impassioned speeches, often hours long, drove the sans-culottes to action and kept the Revolution alive. But as the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Danton struggled to steer the increasingly divided Revolutionary government. Working tirelessly to halt the bloodshed of Robespierre’s terror, he ultimately became another of its victims. True to form, Danton did not go easily to the guillotine; at his trial, he defended himself with such vehemence that the tribunal convicted him before he could rally the crowd in his favor. In vivid, almost novelistic prose, Lawday leads us from Danton’s humble roots to the streets of revolutionary Paris, where this political legend acted on the stage of the revolution that altered Western civilization. “A gripping story, beautifully told . . . Danton was a headstrong firebrand, a swashbuckling political showman with a prodigious memory, whose spectacular oratory held audiences in thrall.” —The Economist
Author | : George F. E. Rudé |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802132727 |
Tells of the causes, the history, and the legacy of the French Revolution from a two-hundred year perspective.
Author | : Ruth Scurr |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2007-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780805082616 |
Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
Author | : Albert Soboul |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520028555 |
A Marxist analysis of the causes and course of the French Revolution argues that it can be understood, on all levels, only in terms of class struggle.
Author | : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Lawday |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781446434321 |
Author | : Peter McPhee |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2016-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300219504 |
A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its origins, drama, complexity, and significance. Was the Revolution a major turning point in French—even world—history, or was it instead a protracted period of violent upheaval and warfare that wrecked millions of lives? McPhee evaluates the Revolution within a genuinely global context: Europe, the Atlantic region, and even farther. He acknowledges the key revolutionary events that unfolded in Paris, yet also uncovers the varying experiences of French citizens outside the gates of the city: the provincial men and women whose daily lives were altered—or not—by developments in the capital. Enhanced with evocative stories of those who struggled to cope in unpredictable times, McPhee’s deeply researched book investigates the changing personal, social, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. His startling conclusions redefine and illuminate both the experience and the legacy of France’s transformative age of revolution. “McPhee…skillfully and with consummate clarity recounts one of the most complex events in modern history…. [This] extraordinary work is destined to be the standard account of the French Revolution for years to come.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author | : Hilary Mantel |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0312426399 |
Set during the French Revolution, this "riveting historical novel" ("The New Yorker") is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.
Author | : John Milner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300084072 |
En beskrivelse af franske kunstneres opfattelse af Frankrigs krig mod Preussen, Pariserkommunen og den nye franske republik, som det kommer til udtryk i deres kunst
Author | : Ken Follett |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1010 |
Release | : 2011-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101543558 |
Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .