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  • Twelve Who Ruled

    The Year of Terror in the French Revolution

    by R. R. Palmer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Coming of the French Revolution

    by Georges Lefebvre, R. R. Palmer ...
    Translated by R. R. Palmer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French RevolutionThe Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Age of the Democratic Revolution

    A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition

    by R. R. Palmer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Twelve Who Ruled

    The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution

    by R.R. Palmer ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 59 min

    The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1

    The Challenge

    by R. R. Palmer ...
    For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2

    The Struggle

    by R. R. Palmer ...
    For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, although each ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • From Jacobin to Liberal

    Marc-Antoine Jullien, 1775-1848

    by Marc-Antoine Jullien, R. R. Palmer ...
    For this book R. R. Palmer has translated selections from the abundant writings of the versatile French political figure and writer Marc-Antoine Jullien, weaving them together with his own extensive commentary into an absorbing narrative of Jullien's life and times. Jullien's hopes and fears for the "progress of humanity" were typical of many of the French bourgeoisie in this turbulent period. His ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • France under Napoleon

    by Louis Bergeron ...
    Translated by R. R. Palmer ...
    A classic social history of France in the Napoleonic period—now available in English to a new generation of readersPresented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the emperor, France under Napoleon describes the condition ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    by Peter McPhee ...
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A New World Begins

    The History of the French Revolution

    by Jeremy Popkin ...
    From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world.** “A fresh and fair-minded account of the revolution overflowing with vivid narrative detail and clear exposition.” —**Wall Street JournalThe 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Fatal Purity

    Robespierre and the French Revolution

    by Ruth Scurr ...
    Franco-British Society Literary Prize WinnerShortlisted for The Duff Cooper Prize.Long-listed for The Samuel Johnson Prize.A "One Hundred Best Books of the Decade" in The Times (London)"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</em... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Napoleon

    A Political Life

    by Steven Englund ...
    This sophisticated and masterful political biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, written by a respected French history scholar who has taught courses on Napoleon at the University of Paris, brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of French history, the French Revolution, and modern history’s most famous general and statesman.Since boyhood, Steven Englund has been fascinated by the unique force, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD