by Dan Edelstein (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 350
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 15 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 0226184390
ISBN 13: 9780226184395