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    Princeton : Princeton University Press
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    gbv_722896212
    Format: Online-Ressource (426 p.)
    ISBN: 9780691143262
    Content: Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (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
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Facing the Future; 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy; 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World; 4. Industry and Representative Government; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781400827701
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691143262
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Before the Deluge : Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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