Compass of Society

Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-12-14
Mått148 x 232 x 27 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor410
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739114834

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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

By the eighteenth century, Dutch and English writers were praising commerce, once derided as an ignoble activity, as the basis of a strong, free, and civic-minded community. In France, however, commercial values were difficult to reconcile with a heritage of hierarchical privilege, aristocratic prowess, and monarchical glory and control. In Compass of Society, Henry C. Clark shows how French thinkers wrestled with these competing values. The result is a fresh and illuminating perspective on the political and moral dimensions of commercial thought in the French Enlightenment and, more generally, on the values shaping the modern world.