The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-650-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

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 the modern age - was indeed a capitalist and bourgeois revolution. Based on an analysis of the latest historical scholarship as well as on knowledge of Marxist theories of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the work confutes the main arguments and contentions of the revisionist school while laying out a narrative of the causes and unfolding of the Revolution from the eighteenth century to the Napoleonic Age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heller, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Über Autor(innen)

Heller, Henry
Henry Heller is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. A specialist in early modern French history, he has a special interest in the origins of capitalism and in the problems of contemporary history and politics. His many publications include The Cold War and The New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (New York, Monthly Review Press, 2006), Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth Century France (Toronto University Press, 2003), Labor, science and technology in France, 1500-1620 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism; The Ongoing Debate (Pluto Press, forthcoming).