Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
Contents
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.
