Compass of Society - Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	December 2006
Authors:	Henry C. Clark
Dimensions:	232 x 148 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	410
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-1483-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	0-7391-1483-2
Barcode:	9780739114834

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