Book Launch - State, Society and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

Join us for the online book launch of "State, Society and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France"
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State, Society and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Stephen Miller

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Stephen Miller, Xavier LaFrance, Paul Cheney and Kent Wright will discuss Stephen Miller’s book, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (November 2023), about the social, political and economic stakes of the French Revolution. They will question the relationship between the emergence of capitalism and the French Revolution? How did the social structure of the Old Regime collapse in 1789? What new social relations did revolutionaries seek to impose in the 1790s?
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Speakers

Stephen Miller, Professor of History at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), is the author of the book under discussion in this broadcast/book launch, State and Society in Eighteenth Century France: A Study of Political Power and Social Revolution in Languedoc. He is also co-author, with Christopher Isett, of The Social History of Agriculture (2017), author of Feudalism, Venality and Revolution (2020), and co-author, with Xavier Lafrance, of The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France (2023).

Paul Cheney, Professor of European History, University of Chicago, specializes in old regime France and its colonial empire. Before beginning his PhD training in history at Columbia University, he studied political economy at the New School for Social Research. He has taught at Columbia University, the European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the Queen's University of Belfast. Cheney is the author of: Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization in the French Monarchy (Harvard University Press, 2010), and Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue (University of Chicago Press, 2017), a micro-history of one plantation in France’s richest colony. He has published in such journals as The William and Mary Quarterly, Past & Present, Dix-Huitième siècle, and Les Annales historiques de la révolution française, and Modern Intellectual History.

Kent Wright is an associate professor in the faculty of History at Arizona State University. A native of Michigan, he did his graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he specialized in modern intellectual history in general, and the era of the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions in particular. He is the author of A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: the Political Thought of Mably (Stanford) and a forthcoming book on "The Revolutionary Atlantic, 1763-1830" (Cambridge), as well articles and essays on Montesquieu, Rousseau, and modern historiography. From 2011 to 2014, Wright was co-editor of the journal French Historical Studies. He is currently at work on a book on the history of the idea of "the Enlightenment," as object both of scholarly study and intellectual-political polemics, in the 20th century.

Xavier Lafrance, Professor of Political Science at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) is the author of The Making of Capitalism in France (2019), coeditor, with Charles Post, of Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (2018), and co-author with Stephen Miller of The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France (2023).
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