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Introduction -- Commerce and cohesion in the long seventeenth century -- Social trust and nascent globalism: commerce in early seventeenth-century France -- Louis XIV and the two kinds of trade -- Commerce, government and history in the Age of Enlightenment -- "Compass of society": commercial sociability in France, 1715-1740 -- Corporatism, nobility, and the "spirit of commerce," 1740-1763 -- Friend of French mankind: absolute liberalism in the physiocratic moment -- Trust, information, and the grain trade under Terray, 1770-1774 -- Local knowledge, local reform: Turgot towards a new commercial republicanism -- Luxury and commercial society on the eve of the French Revolution -- The French Revolution and the theory of commercial society: from program to philosophy -- Abbé Sieyès on the commercial roots of representative government -- "Apostle of moderation": Morellet on the French Revolution and commercial society -- Conclusion. |
