..".the book provides a considerable contribution to the ongoing
discussions about the character and significance of the French
Revolution... a significant enrichment and reinvigoration of the
traditional Marxist explanation of the French Revolution and a fine
synthesis of the many contributions to criticism of revisionist
theses from especially the last two decades. Possibly this book may
even provide the starting point for more synthetic re-introductions
of socio-economic explanations within the historiography of the
Revolution." . H-Soz-und-Kult
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.
Henry Heller is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History at
the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. A specialist in early
modern French history, he has a special interest in the origins of
capitalism and in the problems of contemporary history and
politics. His many publications include The Cold War and
Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (New York, Monthly Review
Press, 2006), Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth Century France (Toronto
University Press, 2003), and Labor, science and technology in
France, 1500-1620 (Cambridge University Press, 1996)."
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