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Informationen zum Autor By Henry C. Clark Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Talks about the French route to the conception of commercial society in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book finds that the development of market liberalism! far from being an 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 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 Part 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 Part 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
