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

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Description for The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.

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 economic order mediated an enduring cultural transformation. Economic activity was reimagined as a patriotic pursuit, and economic agents—farmers, merchants, and manufacturers—came to be viewed as potential citizens.

Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values ... Read more

Shovlin argues that the Revolution grew out of a debate on how to establish a commercial society capable of fostering both wealth and virtue, and the revolutionaries sought to create such a society by destroying the institutions that channeled modern wealth into the hands of courtiers and financiers.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474187
SKU
V9780801474187
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About John Shovlin
John Shovlin is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.

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Explores 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; ... Read more

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