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The political economy of virtue : luxury, patriotism, and the origins of the French Revolution / John Shovlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shovlin, John.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--France--History--18th century.
- Economics.
- Luxury--Moral and ethical aspects--France--History--18th century.
- Luxury.
- Patriotism--France--History--18th century.
- Patriotism.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Moral and ethical aspects.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Economic aspects.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- France--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political life, massive public engagement with problems of.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Cornell paperbacks"--T.p. verso.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-6347-5
- OCLC:
- 798793845
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