The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815 / / Henry Heller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Heller, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857455697; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857455697
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Henry Heller.

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.