Revolutionary Commerce Globalization and the French Monarchy

Name: Revolutionary Commerce Globalization and the French Monarchy
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ISBN: 9780674047266

ISBN-10: 0674047265

ISBN-13: 9780674047266

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul Cheney

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Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France.The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context, the French developed a "science of commerce" that aimed to benefit from this new wealth while containing its revolutionary effects. Montesquieu became a towering authority among reformist economic and political thinkers by developing a politics of…

Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.33" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Paul Cheney is Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Foreign Trade and National Models



Montesquieu's Science of Commerce



Philosophical History



Finances and the Empire of Climate



Physiocracy and the Politics of History



Center, Periphery, and Commerce National



L'Affaire des Colonies and the Fall of the Monarchy


Notes


Index