Chapter 5 Physiocracy and the Politics of History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Foreign Trade and National Models 21
7. Chapter 2 Montesquieu’s Science of Commerce 52
8. Chapter 3 Philosophical History 87
9. Chapter 4 Finances and the Empire of Climate 117
10. Chapter 5 Physiocracy and the Politics of History 141
11. Chapter 6 Center, Periphery, and Commerce National 168
12. Chapter 7 L’Affaire des Colonies and the Fall of the Monarchy 195
13. Notes 231
14. Index 293