Between crown and commerce : Marseille and the early modern Mediterranean /
Junko Th�er�ese Takeda.
- 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 129th series, 1 .
- Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 129th ser., 1. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-247) and index.
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.