Compass of Society Commerce and Absolutism in

Compass of Society rethinks the French route to a conception of commercial society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Henry C. Clark finds that the development of market liberalism, far from being a narrow and abstract ideological episode, was part of a broad-gauged attempt to address a number of perceived problems generic to Europe and particular to France during this period.

Henry C. Clark is Professor of History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Social trust and nascent globalism : commerce in early seventeenth-century France	p. 3
Louis XIV and the two kinds of trade	p. 27
"Compass of society" : commercial sociability in France, 1715-1740	p. 75
Corporatism, nobility and the "spirit of commerce," 1740-1763	p. 109
Friend of French mankind : absolute liberalism in the physiocratic moment	p. 153
Trust, information, and the grain trade under Terray, 1770-1774	p. 193
Local knowledge, local reform : Turgot toward a new commercial republicanism	p. 221
Luxury and commercial society on the eve of the French revolution	p. 257
Abbe Sieyes on the commercial roots of representative government	p. 283
"Apostle of moderation" : Morellet on the French revolution and commercial society	p. 311
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Compass of Society Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France

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