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|  | Citizens & Cannibals by Eli Sagan
Why did the French Revolution, informed by Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, end in the Great Reign of Terror? How could once moral citizens transform themselves into bloodthirsty guillotine cannibals bent on slaughtering their political opponents? For generations, these questions have mystified historians. Until now. In CITIZENS & CANNIBALS, noted scholar Eli Sagan argues that France's failed evolution into a modern state introduced to the world a previously unknown scourge with catastrophic consequences: ideological terror. France's passage into social and political modernity held for its citizens both great promise and great anxiety. Sagan analyzes this anxiety and demonstrates why the ensuing ideological terror is common to many societies in transition, including the transformations of Weimar to Nazi Germany, Czarist to Soviet Russia, and agrarian to Communist China. While the French Revolution may have introduced ideological terror to the world, Sagan makes it clear that Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators have perpetuated its existence time after time. In fact, Sagan concludes that the seeds of ideological terror remain present in all modernizing societies, at all times, and if given the proper conditions they will germinate in a very predictable way. As in his previous books, Sagan explores the past to illuminate the political strengths and moral shortcomings of all democratic societies, past, present, and future. With this brilliant new analysis of the French Revolution, he reminds us once again that the past can still teach us a great deal about our modern predicament-specifically, why all political progress must come at grave cost. CITIZENS & CANNIBALS is a rigorous work of history and profound psychological insight that offers readers the most comprehensive explanation of the great ambiguities and contradictions of the modern world. AUTHOR: Eli Sagan
PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Israel by Abraham Rattner, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel
Israel the promised land, the holy land, has long played a central role in Jewish and Christian thought. Now, in the closing few years of the twentieth century, politics and prophesy coincide. The Israeli-Arab peace process unfolds; the secular or theocratic nature of the state of Israel is debated passionately; messianic concepts of the role of Israel at the millennium and the end of days are receiving great attention. In Israel: An Echo of Eternity, one of the foremost religious figures of our century gives us a powerful and eloquent statement on the meaning of Israel in our time. Heschel looks at the past, present and future home of the Jewish people. He tells us how and why the presence of Israel has tremendous historical and religious significance for the whole world. This classic, originally published in 1967 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is now updated with an important introduction by Susannah Heschel, his daughter, who holds the Abba Hillel Silver Chair in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University. AUTHOR: Abraham Rattner, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel
PUBLISHER: Jewish Lights Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Revolutionary Soldier, 1775-1781 by C. Keith Wilbur
The only book describing how New Englands eighteen major Indian tribes actually lived. C. Keith Wilbur, a retired medical doctor and former naval officer who served in World War II, is the author of Globe Pequots Illustrated Living History Series, which now comprises nine titles. AUTHOR: C. Keith Wilbur
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Future War by John B. Alexander
Subtitled, Non-Lethal Weapons in Modern Warfare. AUTHOR: John B. Alexander
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Basque History of the World by George Guidall, Mark Kurlansky
This history of the world of the Basques is a cornucopia of interesting information on the people who have lived for centuries in several isolated provinces in the Pyrenees regions of France and Spain. It is also a survey of the role they have played in European history. Kurlansky is also the author of the popular COD, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. AUTHOR: George Guidall, Mark Kurlansky
PUBLISHER: New Millennium Entertainment
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: History
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 | Conspiranoia! by Devon Jackson
Description not available.Presents a compendium of conspiracy theories and paranoia and details how they all have connections to each other. AUTHOR: Devon Jackson
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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