Table of Contents

Introduction: The Problem and the Thesis.

1. The Origins of the Revolution in France.

2. The First Year of Liberty.

3. Subjects Become Citizens.

4. The perjured King and War.

5. The First Year of Equality.

6. Terror and the New Republican Man.

7. The Language of Terror.

8. Collapse and Vengeance.

9. The Failure of Law.

10. Citizens Into Subjects.

11. Napoleon and Thirty Million Frenchmen.

12. The Failure of Empire.

Conclusion: Towards a Future Democracy.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

D. M. G. Sutherland has been Professor of History at the University of Maryland since 1986. Before that, he taught in Canada and in the United Kingdom. His first book, The Chouans: A Social History of Popular Counterrevolution in Upper Brittany, 1780–1795 (1982), received honourable mention from the Canadian Historical Association. He also shared the Koren Prize awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article in a given year. He has received a number of other awards and fellowships of which the most recent is the Guggenheim Fellowship for 2001–02.