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Book SynopsisPolitical 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...
Trade ReviewExplores how French elites in the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries sought to balence their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. Discusses political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France; commerce finance and the luxery debate; constructing a patriot political economy; regenerating the patrie—agronomists, tzx reformers, and physiocrats; patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxery; political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis; the agrarian law and the republican farmer; and the political economy of the notables.
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