The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850

From: Business History Review | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Fairchilds, Cissie | Copyright information

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 255 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-01046-9.

Historians of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French business doubtless will be surprised to learn that the people they write about did not exist. That is the implication of Sarah Maza's brilliant but exasperating book. Taking as her starting point the long-accepted revisio...

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