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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493697603321

Autore

Heller Henry

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-85745-569-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Berghahn monographs in French studies ; ; volume 5

Disciplina

944.04072

Soggetti

Social classes - France - Historiography

Electronic books.

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography

France History Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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