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Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Histories of economics tend to portray attitudes towards commerce
in the era of Adam Smith as celebrating what is termed doux
commerce, that is, sweet or gentle commerce. Commerce and Its
Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought proposes
that reliance on this doux commerce thesis has obscured our
comprehension of the theory and experience of commerce in
Enlightenment Europe. Instead, it uncovers ambivalence towards
commerce in eighteenth-century France, distinguished by an
awareness of its limits - slavery, piracy and monopoly. Through a
careful analysis of the Histoire des deux Indes (1780), the
Enlightenment's best-selling history of comparative empires, Anoush
Fraser Terjanian offers a new perspective on the connections
between political economy, imperialism and the Enlightenment. In
discussing how a 'politics of definition' governed the early
debates about global commerce and its impact, this book enriches
our understanding of the prehistory of globalisation.
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