State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc

by Stephen Miller

In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. Through the revolutionary period, the mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, all embedded in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642599964
• ISBN13: 9781642599961
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"