The Political Economy of Virtue by John Shovlin- This link opens in a new window
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ISBN: 0801444799
Publication Date: 2006-09-28
Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. If you prefer a print copy, check Tripod.