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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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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.