{"product_id":"massacre-isbn-9780465020171","title":"Massacre","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 péoleuses\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Default Title","offer_id":44891823341797,"sku":"NP9780465020171","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_ba97171c-add4-485c-9cf3-3dba22825610.jpg?v=1773103752","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/massacre-isbn-9780465020171","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}