Histories of trade as histories of civilisation / Antonella Alimento, Aris Della Fontana, editors.
Alimento, A. (Antonella), editor.; Della Fontana, Aris, editor.
2021
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Title Histories of trade as histories of civilisation / Antonella Alimento, Aris Della Fontana, editors.
ISBN 9783030800871 (electronic bk.)
3030800873 (electronic bk.)
9783030800864 (print)
3030800865
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80087-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-80087-1 doi
Call Number HD75
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.09
Summary 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 universal history. By comparing and linking the histories of individual peoples within a common historical process, this genre enriched the reflection on civilisation that emerged during the long eighteenth century. Those who looked to the past wanted to understand the political constitutions and manners most appropriate to commerce, and grasp the recurring mechanisms underlying economic development. In this sense, histories of trade constituted a declination of eighteenth-century political economy, and thus became an invaluable analytical and practical tool for a galaxy of academic scholars, journalists, lawyers, administrators, diplomats and government ministers whose ambition was to reform the political, social and economic structure of their nations. Moreover, thanks to these investigations, a lucid awareness of historical temporality and, more particularly, the irrepressible precariousness of economic hegemonies, developed. However, as a field of tension in which multiple and even divergent intellectual sensibilities met, this literary genre also found space for critical assessments that focused on the ambivalence and dangers of commercial civilisation. Examining the complex relationship between the production of wealth and civilisation, this book provides unique insights for scholars of political economy, intellectual history and economic history. Antonella Alimento is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Pisa, Italy. She specialises in European political and economic history and is Co-Editor (with Koen Stapelbroek) of The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave, 2017). Aris Della Fontana is a doctoral student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Della Fontana, Aris, editor.
Available in Other Form HISTORIES OF TRADE AS HISTORIES OF CIVILIZATION.
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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 Huets 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 Schlozers 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 Torress Memoria Apologetica del Dommercio e Coltura dei Romani (1788-91) versus Francesco Mengottis Del Commercio de Romani dalla Prima Guerra Punica a Costantino (1787).

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