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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "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 regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline."--Jacket. |
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Description: | "Cornell paperbacks"--Title page verso. |
Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780801463471 |