Reinterpreting the French Revolution
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Jack A. Goldstone
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Article
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1984
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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JACK A. GOLDSTONE 1789 is often taken as the date of the great divide between the old world and the new, as the point at which "modern society" -the society of the bourgeoisie, of capitalism, emerges from the old regime almost as a butterfly emerges from a crumbling pupa. "Beginning in 1789, the obs