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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lexington Books
ISBN-13
9780739114834
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96701301
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Henry C. Clark
Publication Name
Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
410 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
232mm
Item Width
148mm
Item Weight
658g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Henry C. Clark
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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