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Description for Barricades
Paperback. Num Pages: 417 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HRA; JPA; MMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 561.
Between 1830 and 1848, Paris was rocked by two successful revolutions, three failed insurrections, and seven serious assassination attempts against King Louis-Phillippe and his sons. The June Days of 1848 - the worst urban insurrection in history until that time - finally brought this period to a close. Using a wide variety of sources, including detailed court records and hundreds of depositions of witnesses and suspects, Jill Harsin examines revolutionary republicanism during the violent underground movement of the July Monarchy, and describes these events in vivid detail. The lives of 'ordinary men' are captured in their own words as Harsin ... Read more
Between 1830 and 1848, Paris was rocked by two successful revolutions, three failed insurrections, and seven serious assassination attempts against King Louis-Phillippe and his sons. The June Days of 1848 - the worst urban insurrection in history until that time - finally brought this period to a close. Using a wide variety of sources, including detailed court records and hundreds of depositions of witnesses and suspects, Jill Harsin examines revolutionary republicanism during the violent underground movement of the July Monarchy, and describes these events in vivid detail. The lives of 'ordinary men' are captured in their own words as Harsin ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
417
Condition
New
Number of Pages
417
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349387854
SKU
V9781349387854
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Ref
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About Jill Harsin
JILL HARSIN is Associate Professor of History at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. She is the author of Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Reviews for Barricades
"...a vigorous, spirited narrative that brings the fascinating heyday of the revolution to life in vivid detail."-Colgate Scene "...an entertaining and important study of the revolutionary violence that rocked Paris between 1830 and 1848." - G.P. Cox, Choice "Harsin tells a rattling good tale that one cannot imagine improving upon. The time and space ... Read more