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.
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Compass of society : commerce and absolutism in old-regime France by Henry C. Clark. ISBN 9780739114834. Published by Lexington in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
