The Bourgeois Revolution in France: 1789-1815

A distinguishing feature of Heller's argument is his emphasis on wage earners, to the neglect of petty producers, smallholding peasants and the artisanal sans-culottes, and on the role of industrial rather than mercantile capital in revolutionary change. Heller demonstrates how the rising force...

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Published in:Science & Society 2008, Vol.72 (2), p.244-247
Main Author: Moss, Bernard H.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
Consciousness
Economic history
France
Historians
Manufactured products
Middle class
Nobility
Peasants
Power
Revolution
Social environment
Social sciences
Sociological analysis
Wage & price controls
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Summary:A distinguishing feature of Heller's argument is his emphasis on wage earners, to the neglect of petty producers, smallholding peasants and the artisanal sans-culottes, and on the role of industrial rather than mercantile capital in revolutionary change. Heller demonstrates how the rising forces of capitalism - financial, mercantile and industrial - were blocked by the old monarchical and semifeudal regime and burst it asunder in the Revolution, establishing new social relations, institutions, laws and ruling-class domination that favored capitalist development.
ISSN:0036-8237
1943-2801