The social interpretation of the French revolution
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The social interpretation of the French revolution
Cambridge University Press, 1999
2nd ed
- : hard
- : pbk
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1st edition published 1964
Includes bibliographical footnotes and index
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Alfred Cobban's The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography. This 'revisionist' analysis of the French Revolution caused a furore on first publication in 1964, challenging as it did established orthodoxies during the crucial period of the Cold War. Cobban saw the French Revolution as central to the 'grand narrative of modern history', but provided a salutary corrective to many celebrated social explanations, determinist and otherwise, of its origins and development. A generation later this concise but powerful intervention was reissued in this 1999 edition with an introduction by Gwynne Lewis, providing students with both a context for Cobban's own arguments, and assessing the course of Revolutionary studies in the wake of The Social Interpretation. This book remains a handbook of revisionism for Anglo-Saxon scholars, and is essential reading for all students of French history at undergraduate level and above.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction Gwynne Lewis
- 1. The present state of history
- 2. History and sociology
- 3. The problem of social history
- 4. The meaning of feudalism
- 5. The attack on seigneurial rights
- 6. Who were the revolutionary bourgeois?
- 7. Economic consequences of the Revolution
- 8. A bourgeoisie of landowners
- 9. Country against town
- 10. Social cleavages among the peasantry
- 11. The sans-culottes
- 12. A revolution of the propertied classes
- 13. Poor against rich
- 14. Conclusion
- Index.
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