The Bourgeois Revolution In France

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845456505

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The Bourgeois Revolution in France, 1789-1815 by Henry Heller Pdf

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.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845451694

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The Bourgeois Revolution in France, 1789-1815 by Henry Heller Pdf

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.

Author : H. Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1404946893

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The Bourgeois Revolution in France by H. Heller Pdf

Author : Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781608467327

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How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition) by Neil Davidson Pdf

An abridged edition of the insightful work praised as “an impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy” (Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue). Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, recently the concept of the “bourgeois revolution” has come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this abridged edition of his magisterial How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Neil Davidson expertly distills his theoretical and historical insights about the nature of revolutions, making them accessible for general readers. Through extensive research and comprehensive analysis, Davidson demonstrates that what’s at stake is far from a stale issue for the history books—understanding that these struggles of the past offer far reaching lessons for today’s radicals.

Author : Albert Soboul
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520034198

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A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 by Albert Soboul Pdf

A Marxist analysis of the causes and course of the French Revolution argues that it can be understood, on all levels, only in terms of class struggle.

Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040724

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The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie by Sarah Maza Pdf

Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity. In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed. Despite the large numbers of respectable middling town-dwellers, no group identified themselves as bourgeois. Drawing on political and economic theory and history, personal and polemical writings, and works of fiction, Maza argues that the bourgeoisie was never the social norm. In fact, it functioned as a critical counter-norm, an imagined and threatening embodiment of materialism, self-interest, commercialism, and mass culture, which defined all that the French rejected. A challenge to conventional wisdom about modern French history, this book poses broader questions about the role of anti-bourgeois sentiment in French culture, by suggesting parallels between the figures of the bourgeois, the Jew, and the American in the French social imaginary. It is a brilliant and timely foray into our beliefs and fantasies about the social world and our definition of a social class.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004345867

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The French Revolution and Historical Materialism by Henry Heller Pdf

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.

Author : William H. Sewell (Jr.)
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0822315386

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A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution by William H. Sewell (Jr.) Pdf

What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly's declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état. This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell's insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes's thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers--educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet's highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes's thought--and to the core of the revolutionary project itself. Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.

Author : T. C. W. Blanning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39076000796693

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The French Revolution by T. C. W. Blanning Pdf

Author : George C. Comninel
Publisher : Verso
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0860918904

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Rethinking the French Revolution by George C. Comninel Pdf

Historians generally—and Marxists in particular—have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent revisionist accounts, however, have raised convincing arguments against the idea of the bourgeois class revolution, and the model on which it is based. In this provocative study, George Comninel surveys existing interpretations of the French Revolution and the methodological issues these raise for historians. He argues that the weaknesses of Marxist scholarship originate in Marx’s own method, which has led historians to fall back on abstract conceptions of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Comninel reasserts the principles of historical materialism that found their mature expression in Das Kapital; and outlines an interpretation which concludes that, while the revolution unified the nation and centralized the French state, it did not create a capitalist society.

Author : François Furet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226273389

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Marx and the French Revolution by François Furet Pdf

Throughout his life Karl Marx commented on the French Revolution, but never was able to realize his project of a systematic work on this immense event. This book assembles for the first time all that Marx wrote on this subject. François Furet provides an extended discussion of Marx's thinking on the revolution, and Lucien Calvié situates each of the selections, drawn from existing translations as well as previously untranslated material, in its larger historical context. With his early critique of Hegel, Marx started moving toward his fundamental thesis: that the state is a product of civil society and that the French Revolution was the triumph of bourgeois society. Furet's interpretation follows the evolution of this idea and examines the dilemmas it created for Marx as he considered all the faces the new state assumed over the course of the Revolution: the Jacobin Terror following the constitutional monarchy, Bonaparte's dictatorship following the parliamentary republic. The problem of reconciling his theory with the reality of the Revolution's various manifestations is one of the major difficulties Marx contended with throughout his work. The hesitation, the remorse, and the contradictions of the resulting analyses offer a glimpse of a great thinker struggling with the constraints of his own system. Marx never did elaborate a theory of an autonomous state, but he never stopped wrestling with the challenge to his doctrine posed by late eighteenth-century France, whose changing conditions and successive regimes prompted some of his most intriguing and, until now, unexplored thought.

Author : Roger Magraw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : France
ISBN : 9780195205039

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France, 1815-1914 by Roger Magraw Pdf

In this lively and stimulating study, Roger Magraw examines how the 19th-century French bourgeoisie struggled and eventually succeeded in consolidating the gains it made in 1789. The book describes the attempts of the bourgeoisie to remold France in its own image and its strategy for overcoming the resistance from the old aristocratic and clerical elites and the popular classes. Incorporating the most recent research on religion and anticlericalism, the development of the economy, the role of women in society, and the educational system, this work is the first to draw extensively on the new social history in its interpretation of events in 19th-century France.

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521667674

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The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution by Alfred Cobban Pdf

A 1999 reissue of a classic text on the French revolution, with an introduction by Gwynne Lewis.

Author : P. Pilbeam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230376861

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The 1830 Revolution in France by P. Pilbeam Pdf

This book explores the nature and scope of the 1830 French revolution. Recent developments in the study of history and in the world have done much to overturn established ideas, both of marxists who believed all revolutions led to socialism, and of liberals who feared violence, but who assumed democracy would triumph. Wedged between the revolutions of 1789 and 1848, the author asks was 1830 a minor bourgeois Parisian event? Although politically avoidable, Dr Pilbeam demonstrates that socially it was part of a long-running struggle of peasants and artisans to preserve their way of life.

Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691206936

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The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre Pdf

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.