Commerce and peace in the Enlightenment / edited by Béla Kapossy, University of Lausanne, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Yale University, Richard Whatmore, University of St Andrews.

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English
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  • Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xii, 350 pages illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : power, prosperity and peace in Enlightenment thought / Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky and Richard Whatmore
    • Harrington's project: the balance of money, a republican constitution for Europe, and England's patronage of the world / Mark Somos
    • The enlightened prince and the future of Europe : Voltaire and Frederick the Great's anti-Machiavel of 1740 / Isaac Nakhimovsky
    • From jealousy of trade to the neutrality of finance : Isaac de Pinto's 'system' of luxury and perpetual peace / Koen Stapelbroek
    • Eighteenth-century Carthage / Christopher Brooke
    • Enlightenment socialism : Cesare Beccaria and his critics / Sophus A. Reinert
    • State-machines, commerce and the progress of Humanität in Europe : Herder's response to Kant in Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Mankind / Eva Piirimäe
    • Peace, commerce and cosmopolitan republicanism : the legacy of Andrew Fletcher in late-eighteenth-century Scotland / Iain McDaniel
    • Liberty, war and empire : overcoming the rich state-poor state problem, 1789-1815 / Richard Whatmore
    • Karl Ludwig von Haller's critique of liberal peace / Béla Kapossy
    • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's War and Peace : the right of force revisited / Edward Castleton
    • From king's prerogative to constitutional dictatorship as reason of state / Duncan Kelly
    • Afterword : peace, politics and the division of labour / Michael Sonenscher.
    ISBN
    • 1108416551 ((hardback))
    • 9781108416559 ((hardback))
    OCLC
    973899491
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