The political economy of virtue : luxury, patriotism, and the origins of the French Revolution /

"Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values with the need to regenerat...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Shovlin, John
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Ithaca : Cornell University Press ©2006.
Rochtain ar líne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7zg50
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Introduction : political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France
  • Commerce, finance, and the luxury debate
  • Constructing a patriot political economy
  • Regenerating the patrie : agronomists, tax reformers, and physiocrats
  • Patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxury
  • Political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis
  • The agrarian law and the republican farmer
  • Conclusion : the political economy of the notables.