Format:
412 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780226770321
,
9780226770468
Series Statement:
Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Content:
"William H. Sewell, Jr. turns to the experience of commercial capitalism to show how the commodity form abstracted social relations. The increased independence, flexibility, and anonymity of market relations made equality between citizens not only conceivable but attractive. Commercial capitalism thus found its way into the interstices of this otherwise rigidly hierarchical society, coloring social relations and paving the way for the establishment of civic equality"--
Note:
Old regime state and society -- The eighteenth-century economy: commerce and capitalism -- The emergence of an urban public. The commercial public sphere ; The empire of fashion ; The Parisian promenade -- The philosophes and the career open to talent ; The philosophe career and the impossible example of Voltaire ; Denis Diderot: living by the pen ; The Abbé Morellet: between publishing and patronage ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: self-deceived clientage -- Royal administration and the promise of political economy ; Tocqueville's challenge: royal administration and the rise of civic equality ; Warfare, taxes, and administrative centralization: the double bind of royal finance ; Political economy: a solution to the double bind? ; Navigating the double bind: efforts at reform -- Conclusion: the revolution and the advent of civic equality -- Epilogue: civic equality and the continuing history of capitalism
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebk ISBN 978-0-226-77063-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Kapitalismus
;
Gleichheit
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
