Histories of Trade as Histories of Civilisation /

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement. It marked a discontinuity with erudition and antiquarianism, and interacted critically with uni...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Alimento, Antonella (Editor), Della Fontana, Aris (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Intellectual life-History. Economic history. Historiography. History-Methodology. Europe-History. History-Philosophy. Intellectual History. Economic History. Historiography and Method. European History. Philosophy of History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Antonella Alimento and Aris Della Fontana, 'The Histories of Trade as Histories of Civilization: a peculiar Eighteenth-Century Genre for Reflecting on Commercial Society'
2. Arnaud Orain, Figurism, 'Temporal Goods and the Manifestation of the Divine: The History of Commerce in the Jansenists Pedagogues of the Eighteenth Century'
3. Arnault Skornicki, 'The Physiocratic Counter-History of Trade'
4. Moritz Isenmann, 'Commercial Policy and Social Conflict at the Court of Louis XIV: Contextualizing Pierre-Daniel Huet's Histoire du commerce (1666)'
5. William J. Ashworth, 'Power and Emulation: Works on Trade and Industry in Early Modern England'
6. Koen Stapelbroek, 'The History of Trade and the Legitimacy of the Dutch Republic'
7. Antonella Alimento, 'Re-employing Sources to Reflect on Civilisation: The Case of the Dissertazione Storica sopra il commercio (1751)'
8. Ere Nokkala, 'August von Schlözer's General History of Trade and of Seafaring (1758): The Idea of Trade as Primus Motor of Civilization'
9. Alida Clemente, 'Between Coeval Models and the Glories of Antiquity: Power, Decline and National Virtues in the Neapolitan Histories of Trade'
10. Jenny Mander, 'The City, War and Modern Civilization Seen from the Perspective of Raynal's History of Commerce'
11. Aris Della Fontana, 'Ancient Rome as a Field of Tension: Antonio de Torres's Memoria Apologetica del Dommercio e Coltura dei Romani (1788-91) versus Francesco Mengotti's Del Commercio de' Romani dalla Prima Guerra Punica a Costantino (1787)'.