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

• Autore: Heller Henry
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Disciplina: 944.04072
• Soggetto topico: Social classes - France - Historiography
• Soggetto geografico: France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography; France History Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815 Historiography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Bourgeois Revolution In France, 1789-1815
• ISBN: 0-85745-569-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910493697603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Berghahn monographs in French studies ; ; volume 5.