{"product_id":"9781642599961","title":"State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France","description":"Author: Stephen Miller\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781642599961\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 21 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836307820702,"sku":"ADS-9781642599961","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781642599961.jpg?v=1778737617","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781642599961","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}