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14%OFFPeter McPhee - Liberty or Death: The French Revolution - 9780300228694 - V9780300228694
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

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Description for Liberty or Death: The French Revolution Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 40 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
A strikingly new 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300228694
SKU
V9780300228694
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-41

About Peter McPhee
Peter McPhee serves as a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, and is an internationally esteemed historian of modern France. He lives in Abbotsford, Australia.

Reviews for Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
"Richly detailed . . . finds way to both revivify and dissect the revolutionary passions through not just Paris, but throughout France, it’s colonies and eventually the rest of the world."—Ruth Scurr, Financial Times "McPhee . . . skillfully and with consummate clarity recounts one of the most complex events in modern history. . . . [This] extraordinary work ... Read more

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