num_pages: 128
description: Drawing on the latest scholarship each volume in the World History Library set explores important eras and events explaining not only what happened but why. Coverage begins by presenting the political economic and social background of the country or region at the start of the period. The engaging clearly written narrative then goes on to describe critical events and themes.This book offers young adults a vivid portrait of one of history's most momentous eras: the ten-year period in which France was transformed from a monarchy to a democracy and then abruptly into a dictatorship. The course of the revolution is traced in vivid detail from the Reign of Terror through the rise of Napoleon as general and emperor.
language: English
title: Triumph And Terror: The French Revolution
publisher: Replica Books