An essential new contribution to the debate about how Marists should understand the French Revolution.
In this stirring and persuasive defense of the classic Marxist view of the French Revolution as bourgeois and capitalist revoltuion, Henry Heller lays to rest the sylish revisionism on the subject that still dominates in academic circles. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Histroical Materialism, Heller that the rise of a bourgeois capitalist class in France stretches back to the sixteenth century, and that the revoution itself played a large role in strengthening this nascent class politcally and economically.
By:
Henry Heller
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 140
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781608469956
ISBN 10: 1608469956
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 30 October 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: French Revolution and Historical Materialism Chapter 2 Jaurès Chapter 3 Review of Paysans et seigneurs en Europe: une histoire comparée, XVIe–XIXe siècle, Guy Lemarchand, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011 Chapter 4 The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie Chapter 5 Response to Henry Heller’s ‘The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’ by William Beik Chapter 6 Henry Heller and the ‘Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’ by David Parker Chapter 7 Response to William Beik and David Parker Chapter 8 French Absolutism and Agricultural Capitalism: A Comment on Henry Heller’s Essays by Stephen Miller Chapter 9 Stephen Miller on Capitalism and the Old Regime: A Response Chapter 10 Marx, the French Revolution, and the Spectre of the Bourgeoisie Chapter 11 Review of Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830 Chapter 12 Bankers, Finance Capital And The French Revolutionary Terror, 1791–4 Bibliography Index
Henry Heller is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815 (Berghahn Books, 2006) and The Capitalist University: The Transformation of Higher Education in the United States: 1945-2016 (Pluto Press, 2016).