The French Revolution and historical materialism : : selected essays / / Henry Heller.

This text reasserts the Marxist view of the French Revolution as a bourgeois and capitalist revolution. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Historical Materialism it challenges the still dominant revisionist view of the French Revolution. It serves to restore the close tie between the...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 140
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; 140.
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction: French Revolution and Historical Materialism
  • Jaurès
  • Review of Guy Lemarchand, Paysans et seigneurs en Europe
  • The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie
  • Response to Henry Heller’s ‘The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’ / William Beik
  • Henry Heller and the ‘Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’ / David Parker
  • Response to William Beik and David Parker
  • French Absolutism and Agricultural Capitalism: A Comment on Henry Heller’s Essays / Stephen Miller
  • Stephen Miller on Capitalism in the Old Regime: A Response
  • Marx, the French Revolution, and the Spectre of the Bourgeoisie
  • Review of Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830
  • Bankers, Finance Capital and the French Revolutionary Terror, 1791–4
  • Bibliography
  • Index.