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David A. Bell: Capitalism’s Rosy Dawn, 7 October 2021
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in 18th-Century France
by William H. Sewell Jr.
Chicago, 412 pp., £28, April,978 0 226 77046 8 Show More
by William H. Sewell Jr.
Chicago, 412 pp., £28, April,
“... When Thomas Carlyle wrote these words in the 1830s, few people in the West doubted that the event he was describing, the French Revolution, counted as among the most important in human history. Some saw it as a deliverance, others as a catastrophe, but they agreed that it had changed everything. For the next 150 years, this verdict stood more or less ... ”
