Compass of Society (eBook)

Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France

Henry C. Clark (Autor)

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2006
410 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-5332-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Compass of Society rethinks the French route to a conception of 'commercial society' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Henry C. Clark finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being a narrow and abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address a number of perceived problems generic to Europe and particular to France during this period. In the end, he offers a neo-Tocquevillian account of a topic which Tocqueville himself notoriously underemphasized, namely the emergence of elements of a modern economy in eighteenth century France and the place this development had in explaining the failure of the Old Regime and the onset of the Revolution. Compass of Society will aid in understanding the conflicted French engagement with liberalism even up to the twenty-first century.

Autor

Henry C. Clark is a professor at Canisius College.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Commerce and Cohesion in the Long Seventeenth Century Chapter 2 Social Trust and Nascent Globalism: Commerce in Early Seventeenth-Century France Chapter 3 Louis XIV and the Two Kinds of Trade Chapter 4 Commerce, Government and History in the Age of Enlightenment Chapter 5 Compass of Society: Commercial Sociability in France, 1715-40 Chapter 6 Corporatism, Nobility and the Spirit of Commerce, 1740-63 Chapter 7 Friend of French Mankind: Absolute Liberalism in the Physiocratic Moment Chapter 8 Trust, Information, and the Grain Trade under Terray, 1770-74 Chapter 9 Local Knowledge, Local Reform: Turgot Towards a New Commercial Republicanism Chapter 10 Luxury and Commercial Society on the Eve of the French Revolution Chapter 11 The French Revolution and the Theory of Commercial Society: From Program to Philosophy Chapter 12 Abbé Sieyès on the Commercial Roots of Representative Government Chapter 13 Apostle of Moderation: Morellet on the French Revolution and Commercial Society Chapter 14 Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-5332-3 / 0739153323
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-5332-1 / 9780739153321