Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France by William H. Sewell, Jr.

$105.00 cloth $35.00 paper $34.99 pdf In this ambitious book, Sewell argues that the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France led to the rise of civic equality and its triumph in the Revolution. The philosophes Voltaire, Denis Diderot, the Abbé Morellet, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau took advantage by publishing attacks on the privileges and restrictions of the old régime, which they saw as violating civic equality and hindering economic growth. [Extracted from the article]