Between Crown and Commerce : Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean - Takeda, Junko Therese, 1976-; Project Muse. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
Introduction: Commerce, state-building, and Republicanism in Old Regime France -- Louis XIV, Marseillais merchants, and the problem of discerning the public good -- Between republic and monarchy : nobility and debates over commerce and virtue -- France and the Levantine merchant : the challenges of an international market -- Plague, commerce, and centralized disease control in early modern France -- Virtue without commerce : civism during plague, 1720-1723 -- Civic religiosity and religious civism in plagued Marseille -- Post-mortem : virtue and commerce reconsidered.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index.
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Keywords: France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774.; Marseille (France) -- Politics and government -- 18th century; Marseille (France) -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- France -- Marseille; Marseille (France) -- Commerce -- Mediterranean Region; Marseille (France) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century; Plague -- France -- Marseille -- History -- 18th century; Citizenship -- France -- Marseille -- History -- 18th century; Merchants -- France -- Marseille -- History -- 18th century; Electronic books