The French Revolution and Historical Materialism: Selected Essays
Henry Heller
• $28 / £24.99 • 9781608469956 • 268 Pages
Historical Materialism, new in paperback catalogue: https://we.tl/t-DNvshoI187
An essential new contribution to the debate about how Marxists should understand the French Revolution
In this stirring and persuasive defense of the classical Marxist view of the French Revolution as a bourgeois and capitalist revolution, Henry Heller lays to rest the stylish revisionism on the subject that still dominates in academic circles. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Historical Materialism, Heller that the rise of a bourgeois capitalist class in France stretches back to the sixteenth century, and that the Revolution itself played a large role in strengthening this nascent class politically and economically.
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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).
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