![]() The sheer length of this tome is bound to deter readers, especially general readers, and since Sagan has not done any primary research on the French Revolution, and has no previous background in that area, it is probable that many specialists will treat it with disdain. ![]() ![]() Given the obsession of British publishers with short books – often leading to the mutilation of valuable monographs based on thoroughly researched doctoral theses – it is rather surprising to find an American publisher so reluctant to edit the work of so prolix an author. It is the sixth book of an elderly man with theories about a wide range of topics of which many are not at first sight immediately relevant to the French Revolution, and the text alone – not counting notes, bibliography and index – runs to 554 pages. Rowan and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford 2001, pp. 624, £27.00ĬITIZENS and Cannibals is a rather idiosyncratic book. Tobias Abse: Review - Citizens and CannibalsĮncyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History, Vol. 8 No. 3Ĭitizens and Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity and the Origins of Ideological Terror ![]()
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