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Archive of A People’s History of the French Revolution

    Verso Books
    23 August 2020
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    History: Verso Student Reading

    Our selected History reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Eric Hazan
    09 December 2018
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    “Paris is not an actor, but a battlefield”: Interview with Eric Hazan

    Eric Hazan interviewed about the Gilets Jaunes protests.

    Verso Books
    18 November 2018
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    History: A Verso Bookshelf

    Our essential titles on radical histories.

    Toussaint L'Ouverture
    14 August 2017
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    "To Live Free or Die": On the Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution

    On this day in 1791, The Haitian Revolution began with a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman. The revolution against against French colonial rule radicalised the spirit of the French Revolution by expanding its aims to cover the universal human emancipation, and lead to the first free black republic.

    Eric Hazan
    30 May 2017
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    Performances

    In any case, what sticks out amidst this mass vote is a feeling of absurdity. The absurdity of a mechanism that brings to power a man we know nothing about, and who has grounded his success precisely in his capacity to say nothing (the back cover of his book Révolution has not one line of text, but just a full page photo of Macron himself). The absurdity of a system that gives a crushing majority to such a man, in order to avoid a danger that is largely imaginary. Most of all, the absurdity of a focus on elections that we all feel have nothing to do with our lives, and which we all feel are playing out on a sort of flying carpet, above our heads.

    Daniel Bensaïd
    28 April 2017
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    Revolutions: Great and Still and Silent

    Éric Aeschimann
    06 April 2017
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    Revolution — still the stuff of dreams? A conversation with Sophie Wahnich

    Sophie Wahnich
    15 February 2017
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    Save Those Who Weep

    Eric Hazan
    03 February 2017
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    Culture

    Verso Books
    10 December 2016
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