The Century of the Three Revolutions (Eighteenth Century)

Michel Beaud

Chapter 2 in A History of Capitalism 1500–1980, 1981, pp 43-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The century of enlightenment, of French esprit, of enlightened despotism, this is how the eighteenth century is usually presented—a century of expanding trade, especially world trade, and of increasing market, agricultural, and manufacturing production, accompanied by rising prices and population growth.1 All of this was most evident in the second half of the century accompanied by vastly increased wealth and worsening poverty.2

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Social Contract; Productive Class; Direct Democracy; Slave Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17336-5_3

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