{"product_id":"massacre-the-life-and-death-of-the-paris-commune-9780465020171","title":"Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Merriman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a pre-eminent Yale historian comes the first popular history of the 1871 Paris Commune, a seminal episode in modern European history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMassacre\u003c\/i\u003e, John Merriman introduces a cast of inimitable Communards -- from \u003ci\u003eles pÃ(c)oleuses\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters, \u003ci\u003eMassacre\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the indomitable spirit of the Commune shook the very foundations of Europe.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45356140101783,"sku":"9780465020171","price":1671.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780465020171.webp?v=1767671624","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/massacre-the-life-and-death-of-the-paris-commune-9780465020171","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}