Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

William H. Sewell Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation, published by the University of Chicago Press.  

Introduction: The French Revolution and the Shock of Civic Equality

Chapter 1: Old Regime State and Society

Chapter 2: The Eighteenth-Century Economy: Commerce and Capitalism

Part 1: The Emergence of an Urban Public

Chapter 3: The Commercial Public Sphere

Chapter 4: The Empire of Fashion

Chapter 5: The Parisian Promenade

Part 2: The Philosophes and the Career Open to Talent

Chapter 6: The Philosophe Career and the Impossible Example of Voltaire

Chapter 7: Denis Diderot: Living by the Pen

Chapter 8: The Abbé Morellet: Between Publishing and Patronage

Chapter 9: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Self-Deceived Clientage

Part 3: Royal Administration and the Promise of Political Economy

Chapter 10: Tocqueville’s Challenge: Royal Administration and the Rise of Civic Equality

Chapter 11: Warfare, Taxes, and Administrative Centralization: The Double Bind of Royal Finance

Chapter 12: Political Economy: A Solution to the Double Bind?

Chapter 13: Navigating the Double Bind: Efforts at Reform

Conclusion: The Revolution and the Advent of Civic Equality

Epilogue: Civic Equality and the Continuing History of Capitalism

Acknowledgments

References

Index