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Book SynopsisIn doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Commerce, State-Building, and Republicanism in Old Regime France
1. Louis XIV, Marseillais Merchants, and the Problem of Discerning the Public Good
2. Between Republic and Monarchy: Debating Commerce and Virtue
3. France and the Levantine Merchant: The Challenges of an International Market
4. Plague, Commerce, and Centralized Disease Control in Early Modern France
5. Virtue without Commerce: Civic Spirit During the Plague, 1720– 1723
6. Civic Religiosity and Religious Citizenship in Plague- Stricken Marseille
7. Postmortem: Virtue and Commerce Reconsidered
Notes
Bibliography
Index
