State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc.
Stephen Miller
MILLER Stephen, 2022, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc. Revised and Updated Edition, Leyde, Brill.
ISBN: 978-90-04-52611-2
In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and a revolutionary bourgeoisie, this book shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. The mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, and embedded in autonomous communities. The old regime bourgeoisie and nobility thus developed within the absolutist state in order to have the political means to impose feudal forms of exploitation on the people. These class relations explain the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s.
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
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Pages: i–viii
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Copyright Page
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Introduction
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Pages: 1–17
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Chapter 1 The Peasant Economy, Seigneurial Regime, and State
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Pages: 18–43
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Chapter 2 The Rewards of Royal Service
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Pages: 44–75
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Chapter 3 Crown and Nobility in a Time of Financial Difficulties: Royal Policy 1758–89
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Pages: 76–104
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Chapter 4 Revolutionary Politics 1788–91: Despotism and Equality
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Pages: 105–129
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Chapter 5 Popular Revolts, Political Authority and the Revolutionary Dynamic, 1789–93
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Pages: 130–160
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Chapter 6 Politics and Class, 1792–99: Radicalism, Terror, and Repression
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Pages: 161–187
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Conclusion
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Pages: 188–202
Back Matter
Appendix
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Pages: 203–213
Bibliography
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Index
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Stephen Miller, Ph.D. (1999), UCLA, is Professor of History at UAB (the University of Alabama at Birmingham). His many books and articles include The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origins to the Current Crisis (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).