The social interpretation of the French revolution /
[Book]
by Alfred Cobban ; with an introduction by Gwynne Lewis
Second edition
xlix, 178 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Present State of History -- History and Sociology -- The Problem of Social History -- The Meaning of Feudalism -- The Attack on Seigniorial Rights -- Who were the Revolutionary Bourgeois? -- Economic Consequences of the Revolution -- A Bourgeoisie of Landowners -- Country Against Town -- Social Cleavages Among the Peasantry -- The Sans-Culottes -- A Revolution of the Propertied Classes -- Poor Against Rich
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"Alfred 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 is now reissued with a new introduction by Gwynne Lewis, providing students with both a context for Cobban's own arguments and an assessment of 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."--Jacket
France, History, Revolution, 1789-1799, Social aspects