State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France

Rethinking Causality

Stephen Miller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-996-1 (ISBN)

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In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. Through the revolutionary period, the mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, all embedded in autonomous communities. The old regime bourgeoisie and nobility thus developed within the absolutist state in order to have the political means to impose feudal forms of exploitation on the people. These class relations, and not those offered in the traditional interpretation, gave rise to the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s

Stephen Miller is Professor of History at UAB (the University of Alabama at Birmingham). His many books and articles include The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origins to the Current Crisis.

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

1 The Peasant Economy, Seigneurial Regime, and State

2 The Rewards of Royal Service

3 Crown and Nobility in a Time of Financial Difficulties: Royal Policy 1758–89

4 Revolutionary Politics 1788–91: Despotism and Equality

5 Popular Revolts, Political Authority and the Revolutionary Dynamic, 1789–93

6 Politics and Class, 1792–99: Radicalism, Terror, and Repression

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-64259-996-4 / 1642599964
ISBN-13	978-1-64259-996-1 / 9781642599961
Zustand	Neuware