French Revolution And Historical Materialism

Henry Heller is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815 (Berghahn Books, 2006) and The Capitalist University: The Transformation of Higher Education in the United States: 1945-2016 (Pluto Press, 2016).

• PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: French Revolution and Historical MaterialismChapter 2 JaurèsChapter 3 Review of Paysans et seigneurs en Europe: une histoire comparée, XVIe–XIXe siècle, Guy Lemarchand, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011 Chapter 4 The Longue Durée of the French BourgeoisieChapter 5 Response to Henry Heller’s ‘The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’by William BeikChapter 6 Henry Heller and the ‘Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’by David ParkerChapter 7 Response to William Beik and David ParkerChapter 8 French Absolutism and Agricultural Capitalism: A Comment on Henry Heller’s Essaysby Stephen MillerChapter 9 Stephen Miller on Capitalism and the Old Regime: A ResponseChapter 10 Marx, the French Revolution, and the Spectre of the BourgeoisieChapter 11 Review of Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830Chapter 12 Bankers, Finance Capital And The French Revolutionary Terror, 1791–4BibliographyIndex