The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

by Dan Edelstein (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $33.86

  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.

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $52.59

  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.