The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815(English, Hardcover, Heller Henry)

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The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815(English, Hardcover, Heller Henry) is written by Heller Henry and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1845451694 (ISBN 10) and 9781845451691 (ISBN 13).

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 Francois 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.