Vive La Revolution

Author : Mark Steel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : France
ISBN : 9780743208055

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Vive la Revolution by Mark Steel Pdf

For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel, bestselling author of REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when ordinary people changed the world and became extraordinary. It deserves better jokes than that. In this revolutionary new book, Steel banishes stuffiness from history, telling us what happened in France between the storming of the Bastille and the rise of Napoleon, bringing to life the people who made them happen. His account is dominated by bizarre events and splendid characters, from the famously odd Robespierre, Danton and Thomas Paine, to the less well known Drouet, the local postman who arrested the fleeing King because he recognised him as the man off of the money. VIVE LA REVOLUTION is an uproariously serious work of history - brilliantly funny and insightful, it puts the peculiarity of individual people back at the centre of the story.

Author : Mark Steel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 193185937X

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Vive la Révolution by Mark Steel Pdf

Steel's guide to the French Revolution displays serious scholarship, as well as comic genius.

Author : Mark Steel
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : France
ISBN : 0743208064

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Vive la Revolution by Mark Steel Pdf

Steel's guide to the French Revolution displays serious scholarship, as well as comic genius.

Author : Jessica Brody,Joanne Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534410657

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Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody,Joanne Rendell Pdf

“Not to be missed!” —Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles “An explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series In the tradition of The Lunar Chronicles, this sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet of Laterre. A thief. An officer. A guardian. Three strangers, one shared destiny… When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants. But five hundred years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing. Whispers of revolution have begun—a revolution that hinges on three unlikely heroes… Chatine is a street-savvy thief who will do anything to escape the brutal Regime, including spy on Marcellus, the grandson of the most powerful man on the planet. Marcellus is an officer—and the son of an infamous traitor. In training to take command of the military, Marcellus begins to doubt the government he’s vowed to serve when his father dies and leaves behind a cryptic message that only one person can read: a girl named Alouette. Alouette is living in an underground refuge, where she guards and protects the last surviving library on the planet. But a shocking murder will bring Alouette to the surface for the first time in twelve years…and plunge Laterre into chaos. All three have a role to play in a dangerous game of revolution—and together they will shape the future of a planet.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1794
Category : France
ISBN : OSU:32435017640152

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An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010213986

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The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 0349141290

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Viva la Revolucion by Eric Hobsbawm Pdf

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was also, of course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in Latin America. After the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba in January 1959, and even more after the defeat of the American attempt to overthrow him at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, 'there was not an intellectual in Europe or the USA', he wrote, 'who was not under the spell of Latin America, a continent apparently bubbling with the lava of social revolutions'. 'The Third World brought the hope of revolution back to the First in the 1960s'. The two great international inspirations were Cuba and Vietnam, 'triumphs not only of revolution, but of Davids against Goliaths, of the weak against the all-powerful'.

Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011919250

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“The” French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine Pdf

Author : Henry Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523263911

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French Revolution by Henry Freeman Pdf

French Revolution During the late years of the eighteenth century, the spirit of Enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more towards the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in France, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution. Inside you will read about... - An Environment of Revolution- Rise of the Third Estate- The Rights of Man- Vive la Revolution!- Reign of Terror- The Last RevolutionariesAnd more!Explore the triumph and terror that existed in France during the French Revolution. Review the causes and the lasting effects brought about during this tumultuous time period when the common people of France struggled to remake their world upon the cornerstone of liberty.

Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:N10169222

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Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Pdf

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691178233

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The Wind From the East by Richard Wolin Pdf

Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.

Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044203

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When the King Took Flight by Timothy Tackett Pdf

On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror. Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501154560

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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Ada Ferrer Pdf

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued--through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country's future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington--Barack Obama's opening to the island, Donald Trump's reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden--have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious chronicle written for an era that demands a new reckoning with the island's past. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History reveals the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the influence of the United States on Cuba and the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States--as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period--this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. --

Author : Bailey Stone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521009995

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Reinterpreting the French Revolution by Bailey Stone Pdf

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Author : Jeremy Popkin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096671

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A New World Begins by Jeremy Popkin Pdf

From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is 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 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.