{"product_id":"state-and-society-in-eighteenth-century-france-rethinking-causality-9781642599961","title":"State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie,\u003ci\u003e State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e 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 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, and not those offered in the traditional interpretation, gave rise to the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Peasant Economy, Seigneurial Regime, and State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The Rewards of Royal Service\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Crown and Nobility in a Time of Financial Difficulties: Royal Policy 1758–89\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Revolutionary Politics 1788–91: Despotism and Equality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Popular Revolts, Political Authority and the Revolutionary Dynamic, 1789–93\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Politics and Class, 1792–99: Radicalism, Terror, and Repression\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359883755863,"sku":"9781642599961","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642599961.jpg?v=1754126003","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-and-society-in-eighteenth-century-france-rethinking-causality-9781642599961","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}