Description: Rethinking the French Revolution : Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge, Paperback by Comninel, George C., ISBN 0860918904, ISBN-13 9780860918905, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Historians generally&;and Marxists in particular&;have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent revisionist accounts, however, have raised convincing arguments against the idea of the bourgeois class revolution, and the model on which it is based. In this provocative study, George Comninel surveys existing interpretations of the French Revolution and the methodological issues these raise for historians. He argues that the weaknesses of Marxist scholarship originate in Marx’s own method, which has led historians to fall back on abstract conceptions of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Comninel reasserts the principles of historical materialism that found their mature expression in Das Kapital; and outlines an interpretation which concludes that, while the revolution unified the nation and centralized the French state, it did not create a capitalist society.
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Book Title: Rethinking the French Revolution : Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 1991
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Europe / France
Genre: History
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Author: George C. Comninel
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
