Subject: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 (Keywords)

1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France's neighbours are on high alert. Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingsbr...

Paris, 1789. English spy Attica Morgan's success freeing kidnapped Britons has earned her acclaim with an underground network. But it has also led to the attention of dangerously powerful men. So when she's given a new assignment in Paris, a city with revolution in the air, her instinct is to run...

This award-winning, worldwide bestseller is an authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution.

Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and the numbers requiring execution precipitated the invention of the guillotine.

In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that h...

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.

Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberté, Egalité and Frater...

This book takes a fascinating look at the French revolutionary wars, revealing the little known facts of what happened, why, and the lasting impact on the contemporary world.

Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of 18th-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 French Revolution a major turning point in French - even world - history, or was i...

In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of 18th-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...