Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Is There a Class in This Text? 1
5. 1 The Social Imaginary in Prerevolutionary France 14
6. 2 Commerce, Luxury, and Family 41
7. 3 Revolutionary Brotherhood and the War against Aristocracy 69
8. 4 The Social World after Thermidor 102
9. 5 The Political Birth of the Bourgeoisie, 1815–1830 131
10. 6 The Failure of “Bourgeois Monarchy” 161
11. Conclusion: The Bourgeois, the Jew, and the American 193
12. Notes 207
13. Index 245