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Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought

by Anoush Fraser Terjanian
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781316608456
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 242
  • Original Price: GBP 33.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / General

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.

Terjanian, Anoush Fraser: - Anoush Fraser Terjanian is Director of the Anxieties of Democracy program at the Social Science Research Council, New York, and Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University.

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