Biblioteca / 1970-1979
Ralph Greenlaw, ed. The Social Origins of the French Revolution: The Debate on the Role of the Middle Classes.
Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1975.
CONTENTS
Introduction
I – THE ESTABLISHED OR ORTHODOX VIEWPOINT
The outbreak of the French revolution / George E. Rudé
The social and economic character of the French revolution: its relevance in the modern world / Albert Soboul
The French revolution – A bourgeois revolution / Claude Mazauric
II – A FRENCH CRITIC OF THE ORTHODOX VIEWPOINT
The catechism of the French revolution / Francois Furet
III – OTHER CRITICS OF ORTHODOXY AND SOME RESPONDENTS
The social interpretation of the French revolution / Alfred Cobban
An orthodox critique of Cobban’s social interpretation / Jacques Godechot
A Marxist critique of Cobban’s social interpretation / Claude Mazauric
A reply to the orthodox critique / Alfred Cobban
Capitalism and the origins of the French revolution / George V. Taylor
«Straight history» and «history in depth»: the experience of writers on eighteenth-century France / Betty Behrens
IV – WHO INTERVENED IN 1788? A CASE STUDY IN THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUCTION
Who intervened in 1788? / Elizabeth Eisenstein
Who intervened in 1788? – Some facts / Jean Egret
Class in the French revolution: a discussion / Jaffry Kaplow, Gilbert Shapiro, Elizabeth Eisenstein