MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2014023988
003 DLC
005 20150630141238.0
008 140912s2014 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014023988
020 $a9780465020171 (hardcover)
020 $z9780465056828 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aDC317$b.M365 2014
082 00 $a944.081/2$223
084 $aHIS013000$aHIS037060$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMerriman, John M.
245 10 $aMassacre :$bthe life and death of the Paris Commune /$cJohn Merriman.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBasic Books,$c[2014]
300 $axxvi, 327 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century--before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just society. They expelled loyalists and soldiers and erected barricades in the streets. In Massacre, John Merriman introduces a cast of inimitable Communards--from les petroleuses (female incendiaries) to the painter Gustave Courbet--whose idealism fueled a revolution. And he vividly recreates the Commune's chaotic and bloody end when 30,000 troops stormed the city, burning half of Paris and executing captured Communards en masse. A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters, Massacre reveals how the indomitable spirit of the Commune shook the very foundations of Europe"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
651 0 $aParis (France)$xHistory$yCommune, 1871.
650 0 $aSocial conflict$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aViolence$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMassacres$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aParis (France)$xPolitics and government$y19th century.
651 0 $aParis (France)$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1870-1940.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / France.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.$2bisacsh