The Bourgeois Revolution In France, 1789-1815 / Henry Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Henry, author.

Series:

Berghahn monographs in French studies ; volume 5.

Berghahn monographs in French studies ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--France--Historiography.

Social classes.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography.

France.

France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2009]

Summary:

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William Doyle as well as a French school of criticism headed by François Furet. Today revisionism is the dominant interpretation of the Revolution both in the academic world and among the educated public. Against this conception, this book reasserts the view that the Revolution - the capital event of

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Questioning Revisionism; Chapter 2 Capitalism and the Eighteenth Century French Economy; Chapter 3 Capitalism, Wage Labor, and the Bourgeoisie; Chapter 4 The Revolutionary Crisis; Chapter 5 The Economy in Revolution (1789-1799); Chapter 6 The Directory (1795-1799); Chapter 7 The Era of Napoleon (1799-1815); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 21, 2014).

ISBN:

9780857455697

0857455699

OCLC:

1350570366