Compass of Society: Commerce And Absolutism In Old-Regime France - Couverture rigide

Clark, Henry C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0739114824 ISBN 13 : 9780739114827

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2006

Synopsis

Compass of Society Talks about the French route to the conception of commercial society in the 17th and 18th centuries. This book finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being an abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address a number of perceived problems generic to Europe and particular to France during this period.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Compass of Society rethinks the French route to a conception of "commercial society" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Henry C. Clark finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being a narrow and abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address a number of perceived problems generic to Europe and particular to France during this period. In the end, he offers a neo-Tocquevillian account of a topic which Tocqueville himself notoriously underemphasized, namely the emergence of elements of a modern economy in eighteenth century France and the place this development had in explaining the failure of the Old Regime and the onset of the Revolution. Compass of Society will aid in understanding the conflicted French engagement with liberalism even up to the twenty-first century.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Henry C. Clark is a professor at Canisius College.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0739114824
• ISBN 13: 9780739114827
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 410