Liberty Or Death: The French Revolution Peter Mcphee Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

A Strikingly New Account Of The Impact French Revolution In Paris Across Countryside And Around Globe Has Fascinated Perplexed Inspired For More Than Two Centuries It Was Seismic Event That Radically Transformed France Launched Shock Waves World This Provocative History Peter Mcphee Draws On Lifetime’s Study Eighteenth-Century Europe To Create An Entirely Fresh World’s First Great Modern Revolution—Its Origins Drama Complexity Significance Major Turning Point French—Even World—History Or Instead Protracted Period Violent Upheaval Warfare Wrecked Millions Lives? Evaluates Within Genuinely Global Context: Atlantic Region Even Farther He Acknowledges Key Revolutionary Events Unfolded Yet Also Uncovers Varying Experiences Citizens Outside Gates City: Provincial Men Women Whose Daily Lives Were Altered—Or Not—By Developments Capital Enhanced With Evocative Stories Those Who Struggled Cope Unpredictable Times Mcphee’s Deeply Researched Book Investigates Changing Personal Social Cultural Eighteenth Century His Startling Conclusions Redefine Illuminate Both Experience Legacy France’s Transformative Age Σελίδες: 488 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0704 Διαστάσεις: 12 7X12 7Cm