Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment
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Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment

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Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment

About this book

For many Enlightenment thinkers, discerning the relationship between commerce and peace was the central issue of modern politics. The logic of commerce seemed to require European states and empires to learn how to behave in more peaceful, self-limiting ways. However, as the fate of nations came to depend on the flux of markets, it became difficult to see how their race for prosperity could ever be fully disentangled from their struggle for power. On the contrary, it became easy to see how this entanglement could produce catastrophic results. This volume showcases the variety and the depth of approaches to economic rivalry and the rise of public finance that characterized Enlightenment discussions of international politics. It presents a fundamental reassessment of these debates about 'perpetual peace' and their legacy in the history of political thought.

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Yes, you can access Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment by Béla Kapossy,Isaac Nakhimovsky,Richard Whatmore in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Political History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: power, prosperity, and peace in Enlightenment thought
  10. 1 Harrington's project: The balance of money, a republican constitution for Europe, and England's patronage of the world
  11. 2 The enlightened prince and the future of Europe: Voltaire and Frederick the Great's Anti-Machiavel of 1740
  12. 3 From jealousy of trade to the neutrality of finance: Isaac de Pinto's ``system'' of luxury and perpetual peace
  13. 4 Eighteenth-century Carthage
  14. 5 Enlightenment socialism: Cesare Beccaria and his critics
  15. 6 State-machines, commerce and the progress of Humanitat in Europe: Herder's response to Kant in Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Mankind
  16. 7 Peace, commerce and cosmopolitan republicanism: The legacy of Andrew Fletcher in late-eighteenth-century Scotland
  17. 8 Liberty, war and empire: Overcoming the rich state-poor state problem, 1789–1815
  18. 9 Karl Ludwig von Haller's critique of liberal peace
  19. 10 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's War and Peace: The right of force revisited
  20. 11 From King's prerogative to constitutional dictatorship as reason of state
  21. 12 Afterword: Peace, politics and the division of labour
  22. Index