An essential new contribution to the debate about how Marxists should understand the French Revolution
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).
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: French Revolution and Historical Materialism
Chapter 2 Jaures
Chapter 3 Review of Paysans et seigneurs en Europe: une histoire comparee, XVIe-XIXe siecle, Guy Lemarchand, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011
Chapter 4 The Longue Duree of the French Bourgeoisie
Chapter 5 Response to Henry Heller's 'The Longue Duree of the French Bourgeoisie'
by William Beik
Chapter 6 Henry Heller and the 'Longue Duree of the French Bourgeoisie'
by David Parker
Chapter 7 Response to William Beik and David Parker
Chapter 8 French Absolutism and Agricultural Capitalism: A Comment on Henry Heller's Essays
by Stephen Miller
Chapter 9 Stephen Miller on Capitalism and the Old Regime: A Response
Chapter 10 Marx, the French Revolution, and the Spectre of the Bourgeoisie
Chapter 11 Review of Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
Chapter 12 Bankers, Finance Capital And The French Revolutionary Terror, 1791-4
Bibliography
Index