Book Launch: State, Society and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 5pm to 7pm
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Stephen Miller (History UAB, Xavier LaFrance (L'Université du Québec à Montréal [UQAM]), Paul Cheney University of Chicago) and Kent Wright (Arizona State University) will discuss Stephen Miller’s book, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (November 2023), about the social, political and economic stakes of the French Revolution. They will question the relationship between the emergence of capitalism and the French Revolution? How did the social structure of the Old Regime collapse in 1789? What new social relations did revolutionaries seek to impose in the 1790s?
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