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The Political Economy of Virtue : Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801463471
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Political Economy of VirtueDDC classification:
  • 944.04
LOC classification:
  • HB105.A2 -- S56 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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