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Author : Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1139779346
"By uncovering the ambivalence toward commerce in eighteenth-century France, this book questions the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith"--
Author : Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107005648
This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.
Author : Ryuzo Kuroki,Yusuke Ando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351741958
This book brings together leading contributors to explore the development of political economy in eighteenth century France from an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular the ideas for social reform proposed before the Revolution. Political economy in the Eighteenth century encompassed not only what we traditionally regard as economics but also moral philosophy, natural jurisprudence and political theory. This volume explores the different arguments that were made for reforming the economic organisation of the Ancien Régime before the French Revolution. In doing so, the contributors show that political economy in France laid the foundation for social reform ideas throughout the whole of the eighteenth century.
Author : Susan Richter,Thomas Maissen,Manuela Albertone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000740523
Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of application. Those who sought support for their plans and actions needed to reflect, develop new arguments, and offer new reasons to address an anonymous public. This book aims to compile these changes under the heuristic term of "languages of reform." It analyzes the structures of communication regarding reforms in the 18th century through a wide variety of topics.
Author : Antonella Alimento,Koen Stapelbroek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319535746
This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development.
Author : Michael Kwass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521198707
A bold new interpretation of 'consumer revolution' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.
Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217383
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
Author : H. B. Callaway
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674279346
Officially, revolutionary France granted all citizens a right to property. In practice, however, there was significant continuity with the Old Regime. H. B. Callaway argues that the state’s fraught attempts to confiscate property from Parisian émigrés reveal contradictions in ideas of ownership considered foundational to modern property rights.
Author : John Shovlin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300253566
A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a "Second Hundred Years' War." Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial bargains intended to avert future conflict. What drove this quest for a more peaceful order? In this highly original account, John Shovlin reveals the extent to which Britain and France sought to divert their rivalry away from war and into commercial competition. The two powers worked to end future conflict over trade in Spanish America, the Caribbean, and India, and imagined forms of empire-building that would be more collaborative than competitive. They negotiated to cut cross-channel tariffs, recognizing that free trade could foster national power while muting enmity. This account shows that eighteenth-century capitalism drove not only repeated wars and overseas imperialism but spurred political leaders to strive for global stability.
Author : Béla Kapossy,Isaac Nakhimovsky,Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108416559
This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.
Author : Avi Lifschitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107146327
An examination of responses to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's works and self-fashioned image from the Enlightenment onwards across Europe and the Americas.
Author : David Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107036932
The first full examination of the 'protectionist turn' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.
Author : Matthew Kadane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226832890
"What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In this book, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that Enlightenment is best defined through what it set out to accomplish, which was nothing short of rethinking the meaning of human nature. Kadane argues that this project centered around the doctrine of original sin and, ultimately, its rejection, signaling the radical notion that an inherently flawed nature can be overcome by human means. Kadane explores these ambitious, wide-ranging themes through the story of the largely unknown Pentecost Barker, an eighteenth-century "purser" and wine merchant. Examining Barker's diary and correspondence with a Unitarian minister, Kadane tracks the transformation of Barker's consciousness from a Puritan to an Enlightenment outlook. In one man's conversion, Kadane tracks large-scale shifts in self-understanding whose philosophical reverberations would (and have continued to) shape debates on human nature for centuries to come"--
Author : Antonella Alimento,Aris Della Fontana
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030800871
This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement. It marked a discontinuity with erudition and antiquarianism, and interacted critically with universal history. By comparing and linking the histories of individual peoples within a common historical process, this genre enriched the reflection on civilisation that emerged during the long eighteenth century. Those who looked to the past wanted to understand the political constitutions and manners most appropriate to commerce, and grasp the recurring mechanisms underlying economic development. In this sense, histories of trade constituted a declination of eighteenth-century political economy, and thus became an invaluable analytical and practical tool for a galaxy of academic scholars, journalists, lawyers, administrators, diplomats and government ministers whose ambition was to reform the political, social and economic structure of their nations. Moreover, thanks to these investigations, a lucid awareness of historical temporality and, more particularly, the irrepressible precariousness of economic hegemonies, developed. However, as a field of tension in which multiple and even divergent intellectual sensibilities met, this literary genre also found space for critical assessments that focused on the ambivalence and dangers of commercial civilisation. Examining the complex relationship between the production of wealth and civilisation, this book provides unique insights for scholars of political economy, intellectual history and economic history.
Author : Bla Kapossy,Isaac Nakhimovsky,Sophus A. Reinert,Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674976337
When Istvn Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His innovative program of study culminated in the landmark 2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of HontÕs contemporaries to assess his influence, ideas, and methods. Richard Tuck, John Pocock, John Dunn, Raymond Geuss, Gareth Stedman Jones, Michael Sonenscher, John Robertson, Keith Tribe, Pasquale Pasquino, and Peter N. Miller contribute original essays on themes Hont treated with penetrating insight: the politics of commerce, debt, and luxury; the morality of markets; and economic limits on state power. The authors delve into questions about the relationship between states and markets, politics and economics, through examinations of key Enlightenment and pre-Enlightenment figures in contextÑHobbes, Rousseau, Spinoza, and many others. The contributors also add depth to HontÕs lifelong, if sometimes veiled, engagement with Marx. The result is a work of interpretation that does justice to HontÕs influence while developing its own provocative and illuminating arguments. Markets, Morals, Politics will be a valuable companion to readers of Hont and anyone concerned with political economy and the history of ideas.