France - History - Revolution
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
$26.00 Add to cartIt is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden–and hugely but erotically ugly. M
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426399
- Language: English
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Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women
$16.99 Read more“The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing authors.”–Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Gir
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0062916076
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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Compelled to Witness: Women’s Memoirs of the French Revolution
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the revolution were b
- Author: Yalom, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 098605822X
- Language: English
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Doyle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198840071
- Language: English
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartFrom 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
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1541620178
- Language: English
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
$21.99 Add to cartIt is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contra
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: May 06 2016
- ISBN10: 006008314X
- Language: English
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Scarlet
$17.00 Add to cartRevolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved.
It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires–usually rich and aristocratic–have slaked the guill- Author: Cogman, Genevieve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: 9-May-23
- ISBN10: 059363828X
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$45.00 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035587
- Language: English
