Hiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move exe

Illustration by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo.

As in a number of France’s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executi

A study of the guillotine as a cultural artifact, examining its representation in the arts, both high and low, over the course of two centuries.

The guillotine is a most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Tracing the development of the guillotine, thi