The French Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Ian Davidson worked for the Financial Times for many years (among other things as Paris correspondent and as chief foreign affairs columnist). His earlier Voltaire in Exile (2004), was called 'powerful and illuminating ... revealing and disturbing' by the Sunday Times . Klappentext Drawing extensively on French and international sources and historians, this is a well-researched and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into violence and tyranny. A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the Terror Zusammenfassung A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the Terror

Product details

• Authors: Ian Davidson, Davidson Ian
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781846685415
• ISBN: 978-1-84668-541-5
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, France, HISTORY / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), History and Archaeology, French Revolution, c 1790 to c 1799