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Article: The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution, by John Markoff. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xviii, 689 pp. $85-00 U.S. (cloth), $25.00 U.S. (paper).
For the past thirty years French Revolutionary historiography has been dominated by a powerful Revisionism which, along with a generally negative view of the revolution, has emphasized questions of ideology and political culture over social processes. John Markoff challenges this emphasis in providing the most complete account to date of both the cahiers published for the Estates General and a complex computer analysis of the 4,689 ...