The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property

Bok av Rafe Blaufarb
This book examines how the French Revolutionaries remade the pre-1789 system of property by removing public power from the sphere of property and excising property from the realm of sovereignty. This created a Great Demarcation between property and power, state and society, political and social, public and privatethe conceptual basis of political modernity.