Capitalism and the emergence of civic equality in eighteenth-century France / William H. Sewell, Jr.

In the mid-twentieth century it was widely thought that the French Revolution was caused by a rising bourgeoisie that overthrew the nobility and monarchy and established a new capitalist society. But the discovery that capitalists were rare among revolutionaries led most historians to deny a link be...

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Online Access: Full Text (via University Press Scholarship Online)
Main Author: Sewell, William H., Jr., 1940- (Author)
Other title:Chicago scholarship online.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Series:Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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