Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945

by Richard D.E. Burton

The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair--explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton here offers a stunningly original account of these outbursts, concluding that recourse to political violence was not occasional and abnormal, but rather the usual pattern, in French history. Instead...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438683
• ISBN13: 9780801438684
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher