Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror

by Eli Sagan

Book Overview

Why did the French Revolution, informed by Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, end in the Great Reign of Terror? How could once moral citizens transform themselves into bloodthirsty "guillotine cannibals" bent on slaughtering their political opponents? For generations, these questions have mystified historians. Until now. In Citizens and Cannibals, noted scholar Eli Sagan argues that France's failed evolution into a modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742508315
• ISBN13: 9780742508316
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"