Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
Год выпуска: 2007
Автор: Michael Sonenscher
Издательство:
Страниц: 428
ISBN: 069112499X
Описание Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "AprA?s moi, le dA©luge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt. In Before the Deluge, Michael Sonenscher examines these fears and the responses to them, and the result is nothing less than a new way of thinking about the intellectual origins of the French Revolution. In this nightmare vision of the future, many prerevolutionary observers predicted that the pressures generated by modern war finance would set off a chain of debt defaults that would either destroy established political orders or cause a sudden lurch into despotic rule. Nor was it clear that constitutional government could keep this possibility at bay.... |
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