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The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
Dan Edelstein
The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
Dan Edelstein
Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror.
350 pages, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 1, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780226184388 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 350 |
Dimensions | 237 × 161 × 28 mm · 698 g |
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