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Author Shovlin, John.

Title The political economy of virtue [electronic resource] : luxury, patriotism, and the origins of the French Revolution / John Shovlin.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2006.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note "Cornell paperbacks"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index.
Contents Introduction : political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France -- Commerce, finance, and the luxury debate -- Constructing a patriot political economy -- Regenerating the patrie : agronomists, tax reformers, and physiocrats -- Patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxury -- Political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis -- The agrarian law and the republican farmer -- Conclusion : the political economy of the notables.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Economics -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Luxury -- Moral and ethical aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Patriotism -- France -- History -- 18th century.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Economic aspects.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 0801444799 9780801444791 (DLC) 2006019342
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