Search Results for: French Society In The Eighteenth Century

This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-ce

"William H. Sewell, Jr. turns to the experience of commercial capitalism to show how the commodity form abstracted social relations. The increased independence,

Originally published in 1971. In the 1970s, social historians of seventeenth-century France began examining the social changes in the ancien régime in an effor

In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past. The contributors to this volu

In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses-although social and legal s