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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shovlin, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.