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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.
Paula C. Clarke's detailed account of the careers of two brothers,
Tommaso and Niccolo Soderini, and their relationship with the
Medici family opens up a new perspective on the political world of
Renaissance Florence. The Soderini were at different times
supporters and adversaries of the Medici, whose rise to power
remains the subject of historical debate. Based on hitherto
unpublished sources, particularly from the archives of Florence and
Milan, The Soderini and the Medici examines the nature of the
ascendancy of the Medici and of the opposition to them, the sources
of their power, the operation of their system of patronage, the
bonds connecting one of the most successful political elites in
Renaissance Italy, and the development of the political
institutions of the Florentine state. It is an important
contribution to our understanding of the political and
constitutional history of Florence.
This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the
1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime
fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key
figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework,
thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of
the nascent genre.
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