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Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought

Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought

Terjanian, Anoush Fraser

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Business GeneralGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1107005647
ISBN13: 9781107005648
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 15 2012
Pages: 237
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 bestselling 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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