The French Revolution: An Economic Interpretation - Hardcover

Aftalion, Florin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521362415 ISBN 13: 9780521362412

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

This book is designed to provide a clear, accessible, and thought-provoking guide to the economic background to the French Revolution. Professor Aftalion analyses the policies of the Constituent Assembly, examining in detail taxation, the confiscation of church property, the assignats, and the siege economy of the Terror.

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Reseña del editor

The economic history of revolutionary France is still a neglected area in studies of the Revolution of 1789. Whilst some attention has been given to the condition of the peasants, the urban working classes and the financial crisis of the Ancient Régime, there has been a general tendency to regard economic factors as external and somewhat peripheral to the truly political nature of the Revolution. This book is designed to redress the balance, providing a clear, accessible, and thought-provoking guide to the economic background to the French Revolution. Professor Aftalion analyses the policies followed by successive revolutionary assemblies, examining in detail taxation, the confiscation of church property, the assignats, and the siege economy of the Terror. He shows how decisions taken in 1789 by the Constituent Assembly inevitably led to a deepening financial and economic crisis, and to increasingly radical and disastrous policies. The study is important also for its exposure of many of the economic fallacies propounded both at the time by many Frenchmen and later by many modern historians.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521362415
• ISBN 13: 9780521362412
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244