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174 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
[R]evisionism about the history of the French Revolution is merely one aspect of a much wider revisionism about the process of western--and later global--development into, and in, the era of capitalism.
[I]t is not only the historical origins and development of modern society that ask for some reconsideration, but the very objectives of such societies, ... notably the objective of unlimited technological progress and economic growth. ... But why should the French Revolution be retrospectively made into the scapegoat for our inability to understand the present?