'This is a provocative, lively, and well-written book, and its call for a truly modern sociology of the Revolution can only meet with general approval.' Review of Politics

• 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.

'This is a provocative, lively, and well-written book, and its call for a truly modern sociology of the Revolution can only meet with general approval.' Review of Politics

• 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.

'This is a provocative, lively, and well-written book, and its call for a truly modern sociology of the Revolution can only meet with general approval.' Review of Politics

• 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.