Social Interpretation of the French Revolution

Klappentext A reissue of a classic text on the French revolution! with a new introduction. Zusammenfassung Alfred Cobban's classic work is here reissued in this 1999 student edition. Professor Gwynne Lewis provides a new introduction! contextualising Professor Cobban's study and bringing the reader up to date with recent developments. The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution remains essential reading for all students of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Cobban
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.1999
• EAN: 9780521667678
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66767-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Wiles Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History