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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      22 March 1990
      ISBN:
      9781139168113
      9780521368100
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139168113
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      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.308kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
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    Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
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    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.

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