Description: Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France, Hardcover by Sewell, William H., Jr., ISBN 022677032X, ISBN-13 9780226770321, Brand New, Free shipping in the US There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality&;a distinctive signature of that revolution&;find such fertile ground in France? How might changing economic and social realities have affected political opinions? William H. Sewell Jr. argues that the flourishing of commercial capitalism in eighteenth-century France introduced a new independence, flexibility, and anonymity to French social life. By entering the interstices of this otherwise rigidly hierarchical society, expanded commodity exchange colored everyday experience in ways that made civic equality thinkable, possible, even desirable, when the crisis of the French Revolution arrived. Sewell ties together masterful analyses of a multitude of interrelated topics: the rise of commerce, the emergence of urban publics, the careers of the philosophes, commercial publishing, patronage, political economy, trade, and state finance. Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France offers an original interpretation of one of history&;s pivotal moments.
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Book Title: Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Cent
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Political Economy, Economic History, Europe / France, Social History
Item Weight: 27.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: William H. Sewell Jr.
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
