Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment

IntroductionPower, prosperity, and peace in enlightenment thought
1 Harrington’s projectThe balance of money, a republican constitution for Europe, and England’s patronage of the world
2 The enlightened prince and the future of EuropeVoltaire and Frederick the Great’s Anti-Machiavel of 1740
3 From jealousy of trade to the neutrality of financeIsaac de Pinto’s “system” of luxury and perpetual peace
4 Eighteenth-century Carthage
5 Enlightenment socialism Cesare Beccaria and his critics
6 State-machines, commerce and the progress of Humanität in EuropeHerder’s response to Kant in Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Mankind
7 Peace, commerce and cosmopolitan republicanismThe legacy of Andrew Fletcher in late-eighteenth-century Scotland
8 Liberty, war and empireOvercoming the rich state-poor state problem, 1789–1815
9 Karl Ludwig von Haller’s critique of liberal peace
10 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s War and PeaceThe right of force revisited
11 From King’s prerogative to constitutional dictatorship as reason of state
12 AfterwordPeace, politics and the division of labour
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